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Published on: June 28, 2016
Linewidth collapse in three-photon exciton-polariton spectra of CsI under pressure
1Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA.
Abstract:
Unusual phenomena occurring under hydrostatic compression in the near-band-edge structure of CsI crystals were examined using the nonlinear optical technique of three-photon excitation. The lowest one-photon allowed transition to the exciton-polariton A of gamma-4 symmetry redshifts, while the one-photon forbidden paraexciton C of gamma-5 symmetry blueshifts to a crossing of energies at 4.4 kbar. During this process, the A level exhibits strong spectral line narrowing by more than a factor of 10, while the C level intensity increases by about the same factor. We believe this is the first reported observation of pressure induced line narrowing of deep UV electronic states in solids.
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