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Absorption of Powerful Light by Free Electrons in Crystals: Intraband Electron–Phonon Rabi Oscillations

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The absorption of high-power visible or near-IR laser radiation by free electrons is calculated using the modified resonance approximation. The probabilities Wexc of intraband transitions at which the electron energy changes by ℏ(ω ± ωl), where ω is the frequency of light and ωl is the frequency of longitudinal optical phonons involved in the process, are determined. It is shown that specific electron–phonon Rabi oscillations at a frequency of ΩR may take place, and that the light is absorbed only up to the moment of time at which the first maximum τ1 on the dependence Wexc(t) is reached, where t is the time elapsed from the beginning of the laser pulse. It is shown that, in the case of prebreakdown light intensities, processes of high orders in the field of the light wave affect substantially Wexc, τ1, and ΩR.

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  1. In paper [15], and then in textbooks [16, 17], erroneous formulas were given for the transition probability in the second order of perturbation theory.

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Perlin, E.Y., Ivanov, A.V. & Popov, A.A. Absorption of Powerful Light by Free Electrons in Crystals: Intraband Electron–Phonon Rabi Oscillations. Opt. Spectrosc. 128, 1983–1992 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0030400X20121005

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