Carrier-envelope phase-stabilized laser pulses brought significant advances in investigating laser-solid interactions, as well, with the potential of revealing carrier dynamics in solids on unprecedented time-scales. More specifically, multi-photon induced photoemission from metals proved to be sensitive to the waveform of few-cycle pulses, however, underlying mechanisms are not fully understood. Combining surface plasmonic effects with photoemission demonstrates a potentially more promising approach to investigate laser-surface interactions induced by few-cycle pulses. Numerical results from a simple model on this phenomenon are presented. Related to this, previously unaddressed carrier-envelope phase phenomena in the vicinity of the focus are also considered.

Date Published: 14 February 2008
PDF: 9 pages
Proc. SPIE 6892, Ultrafast Phenomena in Semiconductors and Nanostructure Materials XII, 68921J (14 February 2008); doi: 10.1117/12.761579

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 6892:
Ultrafast Phenomena in Semiconductors and Nanostructure Materials XII
Jin-Joo Song; Kong-Thon Tsen; Markus Betz; Abdulhakem Y. Elezzabi, Editor(s)