Cooling of high density electron-hole plasma

Abstract

We generalize for high density electron-hole plasma, the previous theories [12] of temperature cooling of non-equilibrium hot plasma. Especially we take into account the cooling by emission of mixed longitudinal optical phonon and plasmon modes, these quasiparticles described by a non-equilibrium distribution function. We show that a strong slowing of the plasma cooling occurs, at high electron-hole density. We calculate for CdSe the temperature kinetics of plasma created by Yag laser (pulse duration 30 ps).