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Construction of a pump‐probe system for observing time‐resolved sum frequency images
Author(s) -
Hien Khuat Thi Thu,
Miyauchi Yoshihiro,
Mizutani Goro
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
surface and interface analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.52
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1096-9918
pISSN - 0142-2421
DOI - 10.1002/sia.3604
Subject(s) - wavenumber , intensity (physics) , optics , infrared , chemistry , pulse (music) , signal (programming language) , energy (signal processing) , analytical chemistry (journal) , atomic physics , physics , chromatography , quantum mechanics , detector , computer science , programming language
We combined a pump‐probe technique with optical sum frequency microscopy, and demonstrated a time‐resolved SF intensity image observation of an HSi(111) surface in ultrahigh vacuum (UHV) conditions. After pump‐light irradiation of photon energy 2.33 eV, pulse duration ∼30 ps, and the width of the spot ∼304 µm, SF intensity image resonant to the SiH stretching vibration with IR probe wavenumber of 2085 cm −1 was darkened dramatically at 0 ps and then gradually recovered. Nonresonant SF signals with IR probe wavenumber of 2020 cm −1 increased at the probe delay time ∼0 ps, and then decreased with the life time of ∼1 ns. The width of the spatial profile of the nonresonant signal was at a minimum of ∼436 µm at the delay time 26 ps, and then increased to ∼673 µm at 930 ps. The origins of these behaviors of the SF intensity images are discussed. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.