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Plasmon channels in the electronic relaxation of diamond under high-order harmonics femtosecond irradiation

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Author
J Gaudin
G Geoffroy
S Guizard
Olevano V
S Esnouf
SM Klimentov
PA Pivovarov
SV Garnov
Paul Martin
A Belsky
G Petite
Keywords
electronic relaxation
laser breakdown
photoelectron spectroscopy
diamond
paper
Abstract

We used high order harmonics of a femtosecond titanium-doped sapphire system (pulse duration 25 fs) to realise Ultraviolet Photoelectron Spectroscopy (UPS) measurements on diamond. The UPS spectra were measured for harmonics in the range 13 to 27. We also made ab initio calculations of the electronic lifetime of conduction electrons in the energy range produced in the UPS experiment. Such calculations show that the lifetime suddenly diminishes when the conduction electron energy reaches the plasmon energy, whereas the UPS spectra show evidence in this range of a strong relaxation mechanism with an increased production of low energy secondary electrons. We propose that in this case the electronic relaxation proceeds in two steps: excitation of a plasmon by the high energy electron, the latter decaying into individual electron-hole pairs, as in the case of metals. This process is observed for the first time in an insulator and, on account of its high efficiency, should be introduced in the models of laser breakdown under high intensity.

Year of Publication
2005
Journal
LASER PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume
2
Number of Pages
292-296
Date Published
JUN
URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/lapl.200510001
DOI
10.1002/lapl.200510001
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