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By Peter Hommelhoff, Matthias Kling
The 1st extensive and in-depth assessment of present study in attosecond nanophysics, masking the sector of lively plasmonics through attosecond technology in metals and dielectrics to novel imaging ideas with the top spatial and temporal resolution.
The authors are pioneers within the box and current the following new advancements and capability novel purposes for ultra-fast information verbal exchange and processing, discussing the research of the common timescale of electron dynamics in nanoscale reliable country systems.
either an creation for beginning graduate scholars, in addition to a glance on the present state-of-the-art during this scorching and rising box.
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9 depicts the experimental set-up, which is analogous to the one used in previous experiments on low order harmonic generation with gold nano-rods as optical antennae [28]. A Ti : sapphire oscillator (Venteon, Pulse One) delivers pulses with a pulse duration of <10 fs and a pulse energy of up to 5 nJ centred at 820 nm. The pulses are negatively chirped by several bounces on dispersive mirrors (DCM) to compensate for dispersion added later, that is, a vacuum window, an achromatic lens, and the substrate.
The parameters to model the dispersive behaviour of gold are taken from [53], whereas all other parameters are taken from the experiment. Within the scope of this chapter two quantities are of major interest: the nearfield intensity enhancement ????FDTD and the heat source density qFDTD . 10) where E 0 denotes the incident electric field [54], which is obtained from a reference calculation. 11) with ???? denoting the incident laser frequency, ????(????) the dielectric function of the antenna material and E the local electric field.
9) Areas with a small phase-mismatch therefore have large coherence lengths, indicating a significant contribution to the overall harmonic signal and vice versa [39]. In the following the coherence length is used to assess phase-matching conditions for the case of nano-structure enhanced HHG. 2 are examined numerically. Instead of relying on the linear approximation for the atomic phase, results from the quantum mechanical model [36] were used. 1. 1 Simulation parameters to analyse phase-matching conditions.