Observation of few-cycle, strong-field phenomena in surface plasmon fields

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 24206-24212

  Dombi, P ^a   Irvine, S E ^b   Racz P ^a   Lenner, M ^a   Kroo N ^a   Farkas, G ^a   Mitrofanov, A ^c   Baltuska A ^c   Fuji, T ^d   Krausz, F ^d,e   Elezzabi, A Y ^b  

^a WIGNER RESEARCH CENTRE FOR PHYSICS   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ALL-OPTICAL; AUTOCORRELATION MEASUREMENT; ELECTRON ACCELERATION; ELECTRON PHOTOEMISSION; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; FEW-CYCLE; FIELD ENHANCEMENT; FIELD EXPERIMENT; FIELD OSCILLATIONS; FOCUSED LASER; LASER INTENSITIES; LOW PULSE ENERGY; METAL SURFACES; PLASMONIC; SURFACE PLASMON FIELDS; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS;

PLASMONS;

EID: 78149442460     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.024206     Document Type: Article

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