FEMTOSECOND TIME-RESOLVED SPECTROSCOPY OF POLARIZATION DYNAMICS IN KNBO3
FEMTOSECOND TIME-RESOLVED SPECTROSCOPY OF POLARIZATION DYNAMICS IN KNBO3
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DOI:
10.1080/00150199108216803
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发表时间:
1991-01-01
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影响因子:
0.8
通讯作者:
NELSON, KA
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作者:
DOUGHERTY, TP;WIEDERRECHT, GP;NELSON, KA
Femtosecond time-resolved impulsive stimulated scattering experiments were conducted on KNbO3 at temperatures spanning the orthorhombic phase. A heavily damped soft optic phonon mode associated with the displacive character of the transition and relaxational modes associated with order-disorder character were examined. Previous frequency-domain light scattering experiments had yielded conflicting results for the dynamics of the soft mode and the symmetry of the order-disorder motions. We find the relaxational motion to be of A1 symmetry and the soft mode to be the only low-frequency exictation of B2 symmetry. The soft mode is well described by a damped polariton model without any coupling to a relaxational mode. These results are consistent with a previously proposed eight-site model for the phase transitions.