Related Experiment Video
Updated: Aug 21, 2026

06:42
Generation and Coherent Control of Pulsed Quantum Frequency Combs
Published on: June 8, 2018
Coherent shear phonon generation and detection with ultrashort optical pulses
O Matsuda1, O B Wright, D H Hurley
1Department of Applied Physics, Graduate School of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-8628, Japan. omatsuda@eng.hokudai.ac.jp
Physical Review Letters
|September 28, 2004
Abstract:
Using an optical technique we generate and detect picosecond shear and quasishear coherent acoustic phonon pulses in the time domain. Thermoelastic and piezoelectric generation are directly achieved by breaking the sample lateral symmetry using crystalline anisotropy. We demonstrate efficient detection in isotropic and anisotropic media with various optical incidence geometries.

