Ultrafast Multiharmonic Plasmon Generation by Optically Dressed Electrons

Rivera, Nicholas; Wong, Liang Jie; Soljačić, Marin; Kaminer, Ido

doi:10.1103/physrevlett.122.053901

Ultrafast Multiharmonic Plasmon Generation by Optically Dressed Electrons

Journal Article · Thu Feb 07 23:00:00 EST 2019 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.122.053901· OSTI ID:1610352

Rivera, Nicholas ^[1]; Wong, Liang Jie ^[2]; Soljačić, Marin ^[3]; Kaminer, Ido ^[4]

Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); DOE/OSTI
Singapore Inst. of Manufacturing Technology (Singapore)
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); Technion Israel Inst. of Technology, Haifa (Israel)

Interactions between electrons and photons are a source of rich physics from atomic to astronomical scales. Here, we examine a new kind of electron-photon interaction in which an electron, modulated by light, radiates multiple harmonics of plasmons. The emitted plasmons can be femtosecond in duration and nanometer in spatial scale. The extreme subwavelength nature of the plasmons lowers the necessary input light intensity by at least 4 orders of magnitude relative to state-of-the-art strong-field processes involving bound or free electrons. Here, the results presented here reveal a new means of ultrafast (10–1000 fs) interconversion between photonic and plasmonic energy, and a general scheme for generating spatiotemporally shaped ultrashort pulses in optical materials. More generally, our results suggest a route towards realizing analogues of fascinating physical phenomena like nonlinear Compton scattering in plasmonics and nanophotonics with relatively low intensities, slow electrons, and on nanometer length scales.

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Research Organization:: Krell Institute, Ames, IA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

Grant/Contract Number:: FG02-97ER25308

OSTI ID:: 1610352

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1493965

Journal Information:: Physical Review Letters, Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Issue: 5 Vol. 122; ISSN 0031-9007; ISSN PRLTAO

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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