Initial stages of the melting of a GaAs surface by femtosecond laser pulses: Study by second-harmonic-generation method
Govorkov S. V, Shumai I. L. , Rudolph W., Schroder T.
A substantial difference has been found experimentally between the time scales for the loss of short-range order and long-range order in a GaAs lattice during the application of intense laser pulses with a length of 100 fs.