Abstract:We i n vestigate the ultrafast dynamics of an electron-hole plasma coupled to phonons in bulk GaAs excited with femtosecond laser pulses. Our approach is based on balance equations directly derived from the Boltzmann equation within the relaxation-time approximation. Poisson's equation together with a phenomenological driven-harmonic-oscillator equation supplements our description by accounting for time-dependent electric and vibrational elds. Our calculated internal elds show oscillations at frequencies chara… Show more
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