S02 - Strong-field lightwave electronics in solids
Project description

In project S02, we will investigate the possibility of directly controlling electrons in solids with electric fields of intense laser pulses, which opens up routes for developing lightwave-driven electronics at petahertz rates. Progress along this route requires the understanding of intense laser-solid interactions on sub-cycle time-scale. We will use of the valley degree of freedom of crystals and the electronic coherence to perform elementary operations at the few-femtosecond time scale. We will apply the highly nonlinear optical response and machine learning to write and read-out the information in solids and to resolve electron dynamics on sub-femtosecond and sub-angstrom scale.
Publications
- Attosecond field emission
H. Y. Kim, M. Garg, S. Mandal, L. Seiffert, T. Fennel and E. Goulielmakis
Nature 613, 662-666 (2023)
- Petahertz-scale spectral broadening and few-cycle compression of Yb:KGW laser pulses in a pressurized, gas-filled hollow-core fiber
Z. Pi, H. Y. Kim and E. Goulielmakis
Opt. Lett. 47, 5865-5868 (2022)
- High harmonic generation in condensed matter
E. Goulielmakis and T. Brabec
Nat. Photonics 16, 411-421 (2022)
Project leaders
Prof. Eleftherios Goulielmakis
Phone: +49 (0)381 498 6800
Email: eleftherios.goulielmakisuni-rostockde
Prof. Mikhail (Misha) Ivanov
Phone: +49 (0)30 6392 1210
Email: mikhail.ivanovmbi-berlinde
Institutions
University of Rostock
Institute of Physics
Albert-Einstein-Str. 23
18059 Rostock
Max Born Institute
Department A
Max Born Str. 2A
12489 Berlin