Strong-field nano-optics

P Dombi, Z Pápa, J Vogelsang, SV Yalunin, M Sivis… - Reviews of Modern …, 2020 - APS
The present status and development of strong-field nano-optics, an emerging field of
nonlinear optics, is discussed. A nonperturbative regime of light-matter interactions is …

Attosecond physics phenomena at nanometric tips

M Krüger, C Lemell, G Wachter… - Journal of Physics B …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Attosecond science is based on electron dynamics driven by a strong optical electric field
and has evolved beyond its original scope in gas-phase atomic and molecular physics to …

Plasmonic optical tweezers for particle manipulation: principles, methods, and applications

Y Ren, Q Chen, M He, X Zhang, H Qi, Y Yan - ACS nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
Inspired by the idea of combining conventional optical tweezers with plasmonic
nanostructures, a technique named plasmonic optical tweezers (POT) has been widely …

Sub-femtosecond electron transport in a nanoscale gap

M Ludwig, G Aguirregabiria, F Ritzkowsky, T Rybka… - Nature Physics, 2020 - nature.com
The strong fields associated with few-cycle pulses can drive highly nonlinear phenomena,
allowing the direct control of electrons in condensed matter systems. In this context, by …

Quantitative sampling of atomic-scale electromagnetic waveforms

D Peller, C Roelcke, LZ Kastner, T Buchner, A Neef… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Tailored nanostructures can confine electromagnetic waveforms in extremely sub-
wavelength volumes, opening new avenues in lightwave sensing and control down to sub …

Ultrafast Field‐Emission Electron Sources Based on Nanomaterials

S Zhou, K Chen, MT Cole, Z Li, J Chen, C Li… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The search for electron sources with simultaneous optimal spatial and temporal resolution
has become an area of intense activity for a wide variety of applications in the emerging …

Ultrasensitive probing of plasmonic hot electron occupancies

J Budai, Z Pápa, P Petrik, P Dombi - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Non-thermal and thermal carrier populations in plasmonic systems raised significant interest
in contemporary fundamental and applied physics. Although the theoretical description …

A 3D plasmonic antenna-reactor for nanoscale thermal hotspots and gradients

PD Dongare, Y Zhao, D Renard, J Yang, O Neumann… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Plasmonic nanoantennas focus light below the diffraction limit, creating strong field
enhancements, typically within a nanoscale junction. Placing a nanostructure within the …

Light phase detection with on-chip petahertz electronic networks

Y Yang, M Turchetti, P Vasireddy, WP Putnam… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Ultrafast, high-intensity light-matter interactions lead to optical-field-driven photocurrents
with an attosecond-level temporal response. These photocurrents can be used to detect the …

Strong-field physics with nanospheres

L Seiffert, S Zherebtsov, MF Kling… - Advances in Physics …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
When intense laser fields interact with nanoscale targets, strong-field physics meets
plasmonic near-field enhancement and subwavelength localization of light. Photoemission …