Nature Communications (May 2016)

Attosecond nanoscale near-field sampling

  • B. Förg,
  • J. Schötz,
  • F. Süßmann,
  • M. Förster,
  • M. Krüger,
  • B. Ahn,
  • W. A. Okell,
  • K. Wintersperger,
  • S. Zherebtsov,
  • A. Guggenmos,
  • V. Pervak,
  • A. Kessel,
  • S. A. Trushin,
  • A. M. Azzeer,
  • M. I. Stockman,
  • D. Kim,
  • F. Krausz,
  • P. Hommelhoff,
  • M. F. Kling

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11717
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Photoemission from nanometre-scale structures offer a route toward ultrafast light-field-driven electronic nanocircuits. Here, the authors use attosecond streaking spectroscopy for nanoscale characterization of near-fields in the vicinity of tapered gold nanowires.