Light–matter interactions with photonic quasiparticles

N Rivera, I Kaminer - Nature Reviews Physics, 2020 - nature.com
Interactions between light and matter play an instrumental role in spectroscopy, sensing,
quantum information processing and lasers. In most of these applications, light is considered …

Optical excitations with electron beams: Challenges and opportunities

FJ Garcia de Abajo, V Di Giulio - ACS photonics, 2021 - ACS Publications
Free electron beams such as those employed in electron microscopes have evolved into
powerful tools to investigate photonic nanostructures with an unrivaled combination of …

Roadmap on spatiotemporal light fields

Y Shen, Q Zhan, LG Wright, DN Christodoulides… - Journal of …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Spatiotemporal sculpturing of light pulse with ultimately sophisticated structures represents a
major goal of the everlasting pursue of ultra-fast information transmission and processing as …

Resonant phase-matching between a light wave and a free-electron wavefunction

R Dahan, S Nehemia, M Shentcis, O Reinhardt, Y Adiv… - Nature Physics, 2020 - nature.com
Quantum light–matter interactions of bound electron systems have been studied extensively.
By contrast, quantum interactions of free electrons with light have only become accessible in …

Single-pass high-efficiency terahertz free-electron laser

A Fisher, Y Park, M Lenz, A Ody, R Agustsson… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The terahertz gap is a region of the electromagnetic spectrum where high average and peak
power radiation sources are scarce while at the same time scientific and industrial …

Terawatt-scale attosecond X-ray pulses from a cascaded superradiant free-electron laser

P Franz, S Li, T Driver, RR Robles, D Cesar, E Isele… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Intense attosecond X-ray pulses are key for ultrafast nonlinear spectroscopy and diffractive
imaging. Here we demonstrate the generation of terawatt-scale isolated attosecond pulses …

Experimental demonstration of the mechanism of steady-state microbunching

X Deng, A Chao, J Feikes, A Hoehl, W Huang, R Klein… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The use of particle accelerators as photon sources has enabled advances in science and
technology. Currently the workhorses of such sources are storage-ring-based synchrotron …

Integrated photonics enables continuous-beam electron phase modulation

JW Henke, AS Raja, A Feist, G Huang, G Arend… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Integrated photonics facilitates extensive control over fundamental light–matter interactions
in manifold quantum systems including atoms, trapped ions,, quantum dots and defect …

Observation of 2D Cherenkov radiation

Y Adiv, H Hu, S Tsesses, R Dahan, K Wang, Y Kurman… - Physical Review X, 2023 - APS
For over 80 years of research, the conventional description of free-electron radiation
phenomena, such as Cherenkov radiation, has remained unchanged: classical three …

Miniature light-driven nanophotonic electron acceleration and control

R Shiloh, N Schönenberger, Y Adiv… - Advances in Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Dielectric laser accelerators (DLAs) are fundamentally based on the interaction of photons
with free electrons, where energy and momentum conservation are satisfied by mediation of …