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Opt Express ; 18(23): 24206-12, 2010 Nov 08.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21164766

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We present experimental evidence of the generation of few-cycle propagating surface plasmon polariton wavepackets. These ultrashort plasmonic pulses comprised of only 2-3 field oscillations were characterized by an autocorrelation measurement based on electron photoemission. By exploiting plasmonic field enhancement, we achieved plasmon-induced tunnelling emission from the metal surface at low laser intensity, opening perspectives for strong-field experiments with low pulse energies. All-optical electron acceleration up to keV kinetic energy is also demonstrated in these surface-confined, few-cycle fields with only 1.35×10(12) W/cm2 focused laser intensity. The experimental results are found to be in excellent agreement with the model.

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Opt Express ; 16(26): 21656-61, 2008 Dec 22.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-19104597

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Evanescent fields of surface plasmon polaritons (SPP) above metal surfaces can reach 1-2 orders of magnitude higher, nearly atomic field strengths in comparison to the relatively weak exciting laser fields of a femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser oscillator. We used these high plasmonic fields to study the characteristic SPP phenomena of intense field optics experimentally. It was found that both the intensity and the angular distribution of SPP emitted light depend nonlinearly on the exciting laser intensity in the higher-intensity, non-perturbative range of the interactions. These results are supported by our theory. At these strong excitations, an additional, depolarized, diffuse spectrum also appeared which can be attributed either to the fluorescence of Au, or to the non-equlibrium Planck radiation, originating from the fast cooling of the conduction electron cloud of Au excited by the femtosecond laser pulse.

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Nature ; 410(6829): 627, 2001 Apr 05.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-11287921
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