Photon energy dependence of Kerr rotation in GeTe/Sb2Te3 chalcogenide superlattices

Takara Suzuki; Richarj Mondal; Yuta Saito; Paul Fons; Alexander V. Kolobov; Junji Tominaga; Hidemi Shigekawa; Muneaki Hase

doi:10.1088/1361-648X/ab2e9f

Photon energy dependence of Kerr rotation in GeTe/Sb₂Te₃ chalcogenide superlattices

Takara Suzuki, Richarj Mondal, Yuta Saito, Paul Fons, Alexander V. Kolobov, Junji Tominaga, Hidemi Shigekawa, Muneaki Hase

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Abstract

We report on pump-probe based helicity dependent time-resolved Kerr measurements under infrared excitation of chalcogenide superlattices, consisting of alternately stacked GeTe and Sb₂Te₃ layers. The Kerr rotation signal consists of the specular inverse Faraday effect (SIFE) and the specular optical Kerr effect (SOKE), both of which are found to monotonically increase with decreasing photon energy over a sub-eV energy range. Although the dependence of the SIFE can be attributed to the response function of direct third-order nonlinear susceptibility, the magnitude of the SOKE reflects cascading second-order nonlinear susceptibility resulting from electronic transitions between bulk valence/conduction bands and interface-originating Dirac states of the superlattice.

Original language	English
Article number	415502
Journal	Journal of Physics Condensed Matter
Volume	31
Issue number	41
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-648X/ab2e9f
Publication status	Published - 2019 Jul 15
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Optical Kerr effect
chalcogenide superlattices
inverse Faraday effect
ultrafast spectroscopy

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Materials Science(all)
Condensed Matter Physics

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