Coherent phonon coupled with exciton in semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes using a few-cycle pulse laser

Abstract

The vibrational wavepackets dynamics of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) are studied through the modulation of the transition probability in the visible spectral range of the systems. The modulations corresponding to the radial breathing mode (RBM), observed in the time traces for the four chiral systems (6,4), (6,5), (7,5), and (8,3), have been analyzed. The vibrational modes of the coherent phonon spectra are identified from the two-dimensional distribution of probe photon energy versus Fourier frequency. The present study pointed out that the observed probe photon energy dependence is due to both the imaginary and real parts of the third-order susceptibility, corresponding to derivative type dependence of the absorbed photon energy spectrum due to molecular-phase modulation, Raman (and Raman-like) gain and loss processes, and molecular phase modulation, respectively. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.