Free-electron–light interactions in nanophotonics

C Roques-Carmes, SE Kooi, Y Yang, N Rivera… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
When impinging on optical structures or passing in their vicinity, free electrons can
spontaneously emit electromagnetic radiation, a phenomenon generally known as …

Smith–Purcell Radiation from Highly Mobile Carriers in 2D Quantum Materials

S Lu, A Nussupbekov, X Xiong, WJ Ding… - Laser & Photonics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Terahertz (THz) radiation has broad applications ranging from medical imaging to
spectroscopy. One viable source of high‐intensity THz radiation is the Smith–Purcell (SP) …

Theory of Smith-Purcell radiation from a 2D array of small noninteracting particles

DI Garaev, DY Sergeeva, AA Tishchenko - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
We construct the first-principles theory for the scattering of the Coulomb field of a fast
electron traveling along an array of nano-or microparticles. The electron's trajectory is …

Steering Smith-Purcell radiation angle in a fixed frequency by the Fano-resonant metasurface

T Fu, D Wang, Z Yang, Z Deng, W Liu - Optics Express, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Smith-Purcell radiation (SPR) is a kind of electromagnetic wave radiation that happens
when an energetic beam of electrons passes very closely parallel to the surface of a ruled …

Cherenkov radiation from photonic bound states in the continuum: towards compact free-electron lasers

Y Song, N Jiang, L Liu, X Hu, J Zi - Physical Review Applied, 2018 - APS
In conventional materials, Cherenkov radiation (CR) due to a moving charged particle is
associated with a broad frequency range and velocity threshold. Here, we show that using a …

[HTML][HTML] Spiral field generation in Smith-Purcell radiation by helical metagratings

L Jing, Z Wang, X Lin, B Zheng, S Xu, L Shen, Y Yang… - Research, 2019 - spj.science.org
Moving electrons interacting with media can give rise to electromagnetic radiations and has
been emerged as a promising platform for particle detection, spectroscopies, and free …

Generation of Airy beams in Smith–Purcell radiation

L Jing, D Liao, J Tao, H Chen, Z Wang - Optics Letters, 2022 - opg.optica.org
The metasurface has recently emerged as a powerful platform to engineer wave packets of
free electron radiation at the mesoscale. Here, we propose that Airy beams can be …

Efficient terahertz and infrared Smith–Purcell radiation from metal-slot metasurfaces

Y Song, J Du, N Jiang, L Liu, X Hu - Optics Letters, 2018 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate that when a charged particle moves on top of a metal-slot metasurface
consisting of metallic slot resonators, strong Smith–Purcell electromagnetic (EM) radiation …

Intensive vertical orientation Smith–Purcell radiation from the 2D well-array metasurface

P Zhang, L Wang, Y Zhang, A Aimidula, M Tang - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
We present an intensive vertical orientation Smith–Purcell radiation with the 2D well-array
metasurface. It is shown that the moving electrons can induce three induced surface currents …

Polarized grating transition radiation from a 2D photonic crystal

DY Sergeeva, DI Garaev, AA Tishchenko - JOSA B, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Transition radiation (TR) is widely used as a radiation source in a wide spectral range, from
terahertz to x rays. Conventional flat surfaces are usually used, but with the development of …