Transient optical gain in strong-field-excited solids

Abstract

Multiphoton excitation of a solid by a few-cycle, intense laser pulse forms a very non-equilibrium distribution of charge carriers, where occupation probabilities do not necessarily decrease with energy. We show that, under certain conditions, significant population inversion can emerge between pairs of valence- or conduction-band states, where transitions between the Bloch states are dipole-allowed. This population inversion leads to stimulated emission in a laser-excited solid at frequencies where the unperturbed solid is transparent. We establish the optimal conditions for observing the strong-field-induced optical gain.

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