| This thesis aims to study the dynamic process of optically pumped nuclear spin polarization on Gallium Arsenide. First of all, the time-resolved optical Faraday rotation is applied to observe the electron spin dynamics in the presence of the nuclear magnetic field. And then the optically-pumped NMR is measured on different parameters, including the dependences of light helicity, irradiation intensity, photon energy, illumination time and temperature. We report a new phenomenology at low irradiation intensity. A nuclear polarization model combining hyperfine and quadrupolar relaxation is developed, with experimental data supported. By exploiting the two competing mechanism on various photon energies, illumination intensity and NMR pulse sequences, we use high field stray-field NMR imaging to realize all-optical creation of three-dimensional patterning of positive and negative nuclear polarization on the micron length scale. Finally, the effect of nuclear spin diffusion effect is investigated. We demonstrate in a remarkable way the unambiguous evidence of diffusion, which results in a great enhancement of quadrupolar relaxation in the nanometer scale. |
