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Mesure de la cohérence Decay en GaMnAs Utilisation femtoseconde mélange à quatre ondes

Published: December 3, 2013 doi: 10.3791/51094
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1Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University, 2Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame

Materials

Name Company Catalog Number Comments
Ti:Sapphire Oscillator Coherent Mira-Seed Part of full laser system
Manual Translation Stage Newport 462 Quantity: 2
Optical/Optomechanical Components Thorlabs, Others Various
DC Regulated Power Supply Tenma 72-6628
Function Generator GW Instek GFG-8216A
Digital Delay Generator Stanford Research Systems DG645
Speaker Amplifier Sony XM-222W
Silicon Photodetector Thorlabs PDA36A
Photomultiplier Tube Hamamatsu
Digital Oscilloscope Tektronix TDS2024B
Optical Cryostat Janis ST-300
Cornerstone 260 Monochromator Newport Newport 74110
Sapphire Window General Ruby and Sapphire
Citric Acid Sigma-Aldrich C1909
Optical Adhesive Norland Thorlabs NOA61
Hydrogen Peroxide Solution Sigma-Aldrich H3410
Deionized Water Water from a Type I water system

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Mesure de la cohérence Decay en GaMnAs Utilisation femtoseconde mélange à quatre ondes
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Webber, D., de Boer, T., Yildirim,… More

Webber, D., de Boer, T., Yildirim, M., March, S., Mathew, R., Gamouras, A., Liu, X., Dobrowolska, M., Furdyna, J., Hall, K. Measurement of Coherence Decay in GaMnAs Using Femtosecond Four-wave Mixing. J. Vis. Exp. (82), e51094, doi:10.3791/51094 (2013).

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