Semiconductors
Nonresonance Phase Conjugation of Light at the Surface of GaN Films Upon High-Power Optical Pumping
А. Н. Грузинцев, A. N. Red’kin
Abstract
Abstract The possibility of the nonresonance phase conjugation of light in an excited semiconductor medium is shown theoretically and experimentally. In epitaxial GaN films pumped with a nitrogen laser at room temperature, the induced phase conjugation of light in the visible and infrared spectral regions is detected for the first time. The dependences of the phase-conjugation signal intensity on the photon energy and laser-pumping intensity are studied. An interpretation of the effect as a result of the absorption and refraction of light at laser-induced free charge carriers in the semiconductor medium is proposed.