Two-color Kerr microscopy of two-dimensional materials with sub-picosecond time resolution

Rev Sci Instrum. 2021 Nov 1;92(11):113904. doi: 10.1063/5.0058110.

Abstract

We present a two-color Kerr microscopy system based on two electronically synchronized erbium-fiber laser oscillators with independently tunable emission energies spanning most of the visible spectrum. Combining a spatial resolution below 2 μm and sub-ps time resolution with high sensitivity and cryogenic sample temperatures, it is ideally suited for studying spin and valley dynamics in a wide range of two-dimensional materials. We illustrate its capabilities by studying a monolayer of the common semiconducting transition metal disulfide MoS2.