Controlled near-field enhanced electron acceleration from dielectric nanospheres with intense few-cycle laser fields

Nature Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 656-662

  Zherebtsov, Sergey ^a   Fennel, Thomas ^b   Plenge, Jürgen ^c   Antonsson, Egill ^c   Znakovskaya, Irina ^a   Wirth, Adrian ^a   Herrwerth, Oliver ^a   Sümann, Frederik ^a   Peltz, Christian ^b   Ahmad, Izhar ^a   Trushin, Sergei A ^a   Pervak, Vladimir ^d   Karsch, Stefan ^a,d   Vrakking, Marc J J ^e,f   Langer, Burkhard ^c   Graf, Christina ^c   Stockman, Mark I ^a,g   Krausz, Ferenc ^a,d   Rühl, Eckart ^c   Kling, Matthias F ^a,h,i  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^e MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^f FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

^g GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRONS; SILICA; SIO2 NANOPARTICLES;

ACCELERATION MECHANISMS; CONDENSED MATTER; DIRECTIONAL EMISSION; ELECTRON ACCELERATION; ENERGETIC ELECTRON; FEW-CYCLE LASER PULSE; LOCAL ELECTRIC FIELD; ULTRAFAST NONLINEAR PROCESS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 79961026329     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1983     Document Type: Article

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