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Two-color Multiphoton Emission from Nanotips

Quantum Physics 2021-05-18 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Optics

Abstract

Two-color multiphoton emission from polycrystalline tungsten nanotips has been demonstrated using two-color laser fields. The two-color photoemission is assisted by a three-photon multicolor quantum channel, which leads to a twofold increase in quantum efficiency. Weak-field control of two-color multiphoton emission was achieved by changing the efficiency of the quantum channel with pulse delay. The result of this study complements two-color tunneling photoemission in strong fields, and has potential applications for nanowire-based photonic devices. Moreover, the demonstrated two-color multiphoton emission may be important for realizing ultrafast spin-polarized electron sources via optically injected spin current.

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@article{arxiv.1701.01406,
  title  = {Two-color Multiphoton Emission from Nanotips},
  author = {Wayne Cheng-Wei Huang and Maria Becker and Joshua Beck and Herman Batelaan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.01406},
  year   = {2021}
}
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