On-chip sampling of optical fields with attosecond resolution

MR Bionta, F Ritzkowsky, M Turchetti, Y Yang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
We demonstrate an on-chip, optoelectronic device capable of sampling arbitrary, low-
energy, near-infrared waveforms under ambient conditions with sub-optical-cycle resolution …

Recent advances in petahertz electric field sampling

A Herbst, K Scheffter, MM Bidhendi… - Journal of Physics B …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The ability to resolve the complete electric field of laser pulses from terahertz to mid-infrared
spectral ranges has enriched time-domain spectroscopy for decades. Field-resolved …

An infrared photothermoelectric detector enabled by MXene and PEDOT: PSS composite for noncontact fingertip tracking

J Wang, Z Xie, G Lu, JA Liu, JTW Yeow - Microsystems & …, 2023 - nature.com
Photothermoelectric (PTE) detectors functioning on the infrared spectrum show much
potential for use in many fields, such as energy harvesting, nondestructive monitoring, and …

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 …

Few-cycle optical-field-induced photoemission from biased surfaces: An exact quantum theory

Y Luo, Y Zhou, P Zhang - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Photoemission driven by ultrafast optical fields enables spatiotemporal control of electron
motion with extremely high precision. Here, we present a quantum model for ultrafast …

Field-resolved detection of the temporal response of a single plasmonic antenna in the mid-infrared

MP Fischer, N Maccaferri, K Gallacher, J Frigerio… - Optica, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Unveiling the spatial and temporal dynamics of a light pulse interacting with nanosized
objects is of extreme importance to widen our understanding of how photons interact with …

Emerging methods for controlling hot carrier excitation and emission distributions in nanoplasmonic systems

J Pettine, DJ Nesbitt - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2022 - ACS Publications
Concentrated optical fields in plasmonic metal nanostructures generate high densities of
excited charge carriers, which can be extracted or emitted into surrounding media for a …

Onset of charge interaction in strong-field photoemission from nanometric needle tips

J Schötz, L Seiffert, A Maliakkal, J Blöchl, D Zimin… - …, 2021 - degruyter.com
Strong-field photoemission from nanostructures and the associated temporally modulated
currents play a key role in the development of ultrafast vacuum optoelectronics. Optical light …

Light-field-driven electronics in the mid-infrared regime: Schottky rectification

MT Schlecht, M Knorr, CP Schmid, S Malzer… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
The speed of an active electronic semiconductor device is limited by RC timescale, ie, the
time required for its charging and discharging. To circumvent this ubiquitous limitation of …

Nanometric probing with a femtosecond, intra-cavity standing wave

T Heldt, JH Oelmann, L Guth, N Lackmann, L Matt… - …, 2024 - degruyter.com
Optical standing waves are intrinsically nanometric, spatially fixed interference-field patterns.
At a commensurate scale, metallic nanotips serve as coherent, atomic-sized electron …