Abstract
Carbon nanotubes have potential to make breakthrough achievement in nano-electronics, photonics, and ultrafast devices. We report real-time observations of coherent phonons in aligned single-walled carbon nanotubes through the time-resolved reflectivity measurements with sub-10 fs laser pulses. In the isotropic reflectivity measurements, we observe the radial breathing modes, G and even D modes, while in the anisotropic reflectivity measurements, only the G mode appears. A complex polarization dependence of the G band phonon amplitude in the isotropic reflectivity indicates the superposition of G band phonons with different symmetries.
