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Hot electron (E-EFermi=0.75 to 1.55 eV) lifetimes for cesiated Cu(100) and Cu(111) surfaces are measured via interferometric time-resolved two-photon photoemission with a 19-fs intensity FWHM mode locked Ti:sapphire laser at 1.55 eV. The data are analyzed using the optical Bloch equations and a laser pulse characterized in situ via surface second-harmonic generation interferometric autocorrelation. It is found that the retrieved hot-electron lifetimes are unphysically fast, and have a strong dependence on the temperature of the sample and the polarization of the laser. A simple explanation for the data is that the measured signal consists of contributions from transitions through both virtual and real intermediate states.
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Received: 26 July 2000 / Accepted: 8 September 2000 / Published online: 12 October 2000
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Weida, M., Ogawa, S., Nagano, H. et al. Parallel excitation pathways in ultrafast interferometric pump-probe correlation measurements of hot-electron lifetimes in metals. Appl Phys A 71, 553–559 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003390000713
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s003390000713