Laser-assisted photoemission from surfaces
- Department of Physics and JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0440 (United States)
- Department of Physics, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern D-67663 (Germany)
We investigate the laser-assisted photoelectric effect from a solid surface. By illuminating a Pt(111) sample simultaneously with ultrashort 1.6 and 42 eV pulses, we observe sidebands in the extreme ultraviolet photoemission spectrum, and accurately extract their amplitudes over a wide range of laser intensities. Our results agree with a simple model, in which soft x-ray photoemission is accompanied by the interaction of the photoemitted electron with the laser field. This strong effect can definitively be distinguished from other laser surface interaction phenomena, such as hot electron excitation, above-threshold photoemission, and space-charge acceleration. Thus, laser-assisted photoemission from surfaces promises to extend pulse duration measurements to higher photon energies, as well as opening up measurements of femtosecond-to-attosecond electron dynamics in solid and surface-adsorbate systems.
- OSTI ID:
- 21140499
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. A, Vol. 77, Issue 2; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.77.022903; (c) 2008 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1050-2947
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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