Reaching the resolved tunnel regime for a femtosecond oscillator driven field emission electron source

Hommelhoff P, Kealhofer C, Kasevich MA (2009)


Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2009

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Publisher: MAIK Nauka/Interperiodica (МАИК Наука/Интерпериодика) / Institute of Physics

Book Volume: 19

Pages Range: 736-738

URI: http://www.springerlink.com/content/061x28k551182151/?p=b869c3c1934340b9be662ddb525480dd%C2%BF=27

DOI: 10.1134/S1054660X09040288

Abstract

We report on electron emission from tungsten tips with the help of 800 nm-8 fs laser pulses from a Ti:sapphire laser oscillator. We have measured autocorrelation traces of the exciting laser pulse in the photoelectron current, which allows a measurement of the non-linearity as a function of DC voltage applied to the tip. These data are well described by a numerical integration of the one-dimensional Schrödinger equation. The simulation shows us that electron emission resolves the electric field structure of the driving laser pulse, a regime which is currently an extremely fruitful area of research with atoms in the gas phase. For an 8 fs laser pulse with the correct carrier-envelope phase setting the emission duration is as short as 800 nm. © 2009 Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.

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Hommelhoff, P., Kealhofer, C., & Kasevich, M.A. (2009). Reaching the resolved tunnel regime for a femtosecond oscillator driven field emission electron source. Laser Physics, 19, 736-738. https://dx.doi.org/10.1134/S1054660X09040288

MLA:

Hommelhoff, Peter, C. Kealhofer, and M. A. Kasevich. "Reaching the resolved tunnel regime for a femtosecond oscillator driven field emission electron source." Laser Physics 19 (2009): 736-738.

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