Extreme nonlinear strong-field photoemission from carbon nanotubes

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A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä
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2019-12-01
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Nature Communications, Volume 10, issue 1
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Strong-field photoemission produces attosecond (10−18 s) electron pulses that are synchronized to the waveform of the incident light. This nonlinear photoemission lies at the heart of current attosecond technologies. Here we report a new nonlinear photoemission behaviour—the nonlinearity in strong-field regime sharply increases (approaching 40th power-law scaling), making use of sub-nanometric carbon nanotubes and 800 nm pulses. As a result, the carrier-envelope phase sensitive photoemission current shows a greatly improved modulation depth of up to 100% (with a total modulation current up to 2 nA). The calculations reveal that the behaviour is an interplay of valence band optical-field emission with charge interaction, and the nonlinear dynamics can be tunable by changing the bandgap of carbon nanotubes. The extreme nonlinear photoemission offers a new means of producing extreme temporal-spatial resolved electron pulses, and provides a new design philosophy for attosecond electronics and photonics.
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| openaire: EC/H2020/834742/EU//ATOP | openaire: EC/H2020/820423/EU//S2QUIP
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Li, C, Chen, K, Guan, M, Wang, X, Zhou, X, Zhai, F, Dai, J, Li, Z, Sun, Z, Meng, S, Liu, K & Dai, Q 2019, ' Extreme nonlinear strong-field photoemission from carbon nanotubes ', Nature Communications, vol. 10, no. 1, 4891 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12797-z