Ultrafast laser pulses to detect and generate fast thermo-mechanical transients in matter

Details Ultrafast laser pulses to detect and generate fast thermo-mechanical transients in matter Ultrafast laser pulses to detect and generate fast thermo-mechanical transients in matter

2009-05-06

arxiv.org/abs/0905.0780v3

IEEE Photonics Journ. 1, 20 (2009)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

20 pages, 6 figures. Published on IEEE Photonics Journal

Scientific paper

10.1109/JPHOT.2009.2025050

The use of femtosecond laser pulses to impulsively excite thermal and mechanical transients in matter has led, in the last years, to the development of picosecond acoustics. Recently, the pump-probe approach has been applied to nano-engineered materials to optically generate and detect acoustic waves in the GHz-THz frequency range. In this paper, we review the latest advances on ultrafast generation and detection of thermal gradients and pseudo-surface acoustic waves in two-dimensional lattices of metallic nanostructures. Comparing the experimental findings to the numeric analysis of the full thermo-mechanical problem, these materials emerge as model systems to investigate both the mechanical and thermal energy transfer at the nanoscale. The sensitivity of the technique to the nanostructures mass and shape variations, coupled to the phononic crystal properties of the lattices opens the way to a variety of applications ranging from hypersonic waveguiding to mass sensors with femtosecond time-resolution.ens the way to a variety of applications ranging from hypersonic waveguiding to mass sensors with femtosecond time-resolution.

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