Opto-Electronic Advances, Volume. 3, Issue 12, 200023-1(2020)

Helicity-dependent THz emission induced by ultrafast spin photocurrent in nodal-line semimetal candidate Mg3Bi2

Mingyu Tong1... Yuze Hu1, Xiangnan Xie3, Xiegang Zhu5, Zhenyu Wang2,4,*, Xiang'ai Cheng1 and Tian Jiang1 |Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1College of Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China
  • 2National Innovation Institute of Defense Technology, Academy of Military Sciences PLA China, Beijing 100010, China
  • 3State Key Laboratory of High Performance Computing, College of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China
  • 4Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences, Beijing 100193, China
  • 5Science and Technology on Surface Physics and Chemistry Laboratory, Jiangyou 621908, China
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    Characterization of the Mg3Bi2 film.
    Schematic view of helicity-dependent terahertz radiation process.
    (a) Schematic of the THz emission configuration. Polar plots of terahertz waveforms (0~4.65 ps) as a function of α at (b) θ =-45º and (c) +45º, respectively, for φ = 0º. The colors represent the amplitude of the terahertz emissions. Terahertz waveforms for excitation with left-hand circularly polarized, linearly polarized, and right-hand circularly polarized optical pulses at (d) θ =-45º and (e) +45º, respectively.
    (a) and (b) represent the α-dependent terahertz amplitude at t = 2.46 ps. The red solid lines are the best fit with Eq. (2). The symbol ↔, the counterclockwise arrow ↺, and the clockwise arrow ↻ denote linearly polarized (black: α = 0°), left-hand circularly polarized (pink: α = 45°), and right-hand circularly polarized (green: α = 135°) incident photons, respectively. (c) and (d) display the α-dependent coefficients C (red line), L1 (blue line), L2 (orange line), and D (blue line) extracted [using Eq. (2)] individually from (a) and (b).
    (a) THz waveforms at different photoexcitation power with the wavelength center in 800 nm. (b) Fast Fourier transformations (FFT) spectra for the directly measured terahertz waveforms that are shown in (a). (c) THz amplitude versus the power of the incident laser beam. (d) The azimuthal dependent (φ-dependent) absolute amplitude of THz emission waveforms with linear polarized optical pulses.
    (a) THz amplitude as a function of the linear polarization angle α. The red solid line shows the fitting results using a sinusoidal function. (b) Terahertz waveforms for excitation with a linearly polarized angel at α = 0º, 45 º and 90º, respectively.
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    Mingyu Tong, Yuze Hu, Xiangnan Xie, Xiegang Zhu, Zhenyu Wang, Xiang'ai Cheng, Tian Jiang. Helicity-dependent THz emission induced by ultrafast spin photocurrent in nodal-line semimetal candidate Mg3Bi2[J]. Opto-Electronic Advances, 2020, 3(12): 200023-1

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    Category: Original Article

    Received: Jun. 24, 2020

    Accepted: Sep. 15, 2020

    Published Online: Jun. 18, 2021

    The Author Email: Wang Zhenyu (tjiang@nudt.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.29026/oea.2020.200023

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