Abstract
Coherent control experiments using a pair of collinear femtosecond laser pulses have been carried out to manipulate longitudinal optical (LO) phonon-plasmon coupled (LOPC) modes in both $p$- and $n$-type GaAs. By tuning the interpulse separation, remarkably distinct responses have been observed in the two samples. To understand the results obtained a phenomenological model taking the delayed formation of coherent LOPC modes into account is proposed. The model suggests that the lifetime of coherent LOPC modes plays a key role and the interference of the coherent LO phonons excited successively by two pump pulses strongly affects the manipulation of coherent LOPC modes.
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