Colloquium: Strong-field phenomena in periodic systems

SY Kruchinin, F Krausz, VS Yakovlev - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2018 - APS
The advent of visible-infrared laser pulses carrying a substantial fraction of their energy in a
single field oscillation cycle has opened a new era in the experimental investigation of …

Attosecond electron motion control in dielectric

D Hui, H Alqattan, S Yamada, V Pervak, K Yabana… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Attosecond science capitalizes on the extreme nonlinearity of strong fields—driven by few-
cycle pulses—to attain attosecond temporal resolution and give access to the electron …

Sub-cycle optical phase control of nanotunnelling in the single-electron regime

T Rybka, M Ludwig, MF Schmalz, V Knittel, D Brida… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
The high peak electric fields provided by single-cycle light pulses can be harnessed to
manipulate and control charge motion in solid-state systems, resulting in electron emission …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in ultrafast plasmonics: from strong field physics to ultraprecision spectroscopy

S Kim, TI Jeong, J Park, MF Ciappina, S Kim - Nanophotonics, 2022 - degruyter.com
Surface plasmons, the collective oscillation of electrons, enable the manipulation of optical
fields with unprecedented spatial and time resolutions. They are the workhorse of a large set …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Attosecond optoelectronic field measurement in solids

S Sederberg, D Zimin, S Keiber, F Siegrist… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The sub-cycle interaction of light and matter is one of the key frontiers of inquiry made
accessible by attosecond science. Here, we show that when light excites a pair of charge …

[HTML][HTML] Optical-field-controlled photoemission from plasmonic nanoparticles

WP Putnam, RG Hobbs, PD Keathley, KK Berggren… - nature physics, 2017 - nature.com
At high intensities, light–matter interactions are controlled by the electric field of the exciting
light. For instance, when an intense laser pulse interacts with an atomic gas, individual …

Ultra-broadband all-optical sampling of optical waveforms

DA Zimin, VS Yakovlev, N Karpowicz - Science Advances, 2022 - science.org
Optical-field sampling techniques provide direct access to the electric field of visible and
near-infrared light. The existing methods achieve the necessary bandwidth using highly …

Perspective on petahertz electronics and attosecond nanoscopy

J Schötz, Z Wang, E Pisanty, M Lewenstein… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The field of attosecond nanophysics, combining the research areas of attosecond physics
with nanoscale physics, has experienced a considerable rise in recent years, both …

Real-space coherent manipulation of electrons in a single tunnel junction by single-cycle terahertz electric fields

K Yoshioka, I Katayama, Y Minami, M Kitajima… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
The ultrafast coherent manipulation of electrons using waveform-controlled laser pulses,,,,,,,,
is a key issue in the development of modern electronics,. Developing such an approach for a …