All-optical spatio-temporal control of electron emission from SiO2 nanospheres with femtosecond two-color laser fields

Autor: Qingcao Liu, Sergey Zherebtsov, Lennart Seiffert, Slawomir Skruszewicz, Dominik Zietlow, Seongjin Ahn, Philipp Rupp, Pawel Wnuk, Shaohua Sun, Alexander Kessel, Sergei Trushin, Annika Schlander, Dongeon Kim, Eckart Rühl, Marcelo F Ciappina, Josef Tiggesbäumker, Markus Gallei, Thomas Fennel, Matthias F Kling
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: New Journal of Physics, Vol 21, Iss 7, p 073011 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1367-2630
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/ab26c1
Popis: Field localization by nanostructures illuminated with laser pulses of well-defined waveform enables spatio-temporal tailoring of the near-fields for sub-cycle control of electron dynamics at the nanoscale. Here, we apply intense linearly-polarized two-color laser pulses for all-optical control of the highest energy electron emission from SiO _2 nanoparticles. For the size regime where light propagation effects become important, we demonstrate the possibility to control the preferential emission angle of a considerable fraction of the fastest electrons by varying the relative phase of the two-color field. Trajectory based semi-classical simulations show that for the investigated nanoparticle size range the directional steering can be attributed to the two-color effect on the electron trajectories, while the accompanied modification of the spatial distribution of the ionization rate on the nanoparticle surface has only a minor effect.
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