Subcycle surface electron emission driven by strong-field terahertz waveforms

Shaoxian Li, Ashutosh Sharma, Zsuzsanna Márton, Priyo S. Nugraha, Csaba Lombosi, Zoltán Ollmann, István Márton, Péter Dombi, János Hebling and József A. Fülöp ()
Additional contact information
Shaoxian Li: University of Pécs
Ashutosh Sharma: ELI-ALPS Research Institute, ELI-HU Non-Profit Ltd.
Zsuzsanna Márton: ELI-ALPS Research Institute, ELI-HU Non-Profit Ltd.
Priyo S. Nugraha: University of Pécs
Csaba Lombosi: University of Pécs
Zoltán Ollmann: University of Pécs
István Márton: Wigner Research Centre for Physics
Péter Dombi: ELI-ALPS Research Institute, ELI-HU Non-Profit Ltd.
János Hebling: University of Pécs
József A. Fülöp: University of Pécs

Nature Communications, 2023, vol. 14, issue 1, 1-7

Abstract: Abstract The advent of intense terahertz (THz) sources opened a new era when the demonstration of the acceleration and manipulation of free electrons by THz pulses became within reach. THz-field-driven electron emission was predicted to be confined to a single burst due to the single-cycle waveform. Here we demonstrate the confinement of single-cycle THz-waveform-driven electron emission to one of the two half cycles from a solid surface emitter. Either the leading or the trailing half cycle was active, controlled by reversing the field polarity. THz-driven single-burst surface electron emission sources, which do not rely on field-enhancement structures, will impact the development of THz-powered electron acceleration and manipulation devices, all-THz compact electron sources, THz waveguides and telecommunication, THz-field-based measurement techniques and solid-state devices.

Date: 2023
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-42316-0 Abstract (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nat:natcom:v:14:y:2023:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-023-42316-0

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-42316-0

Access Statistics for this article

Nature Communications is currently edited by Nathalie Le Bot, Enda Bergin and Fiona Gillespie

More articles in Nature Communications from Nature
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().