Nanolocalized nonlinear electron photoemission under coherent control.

Stockman, Mark I; Hewageegana, Prabath · Nano Lett · 2005

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

We theoretically show that two-photon coherent control yields electron photoemission from metal nanostructures that is localized in nanosize hot spots whose positions are controllable on a nanometer scale, in agreement with recent experiments. We propose to use silver V-shapes as tailored nanoantennas for which the position of the coherently controllable photoelectron emission hot spot can be deterministically predicted. We predict that the low-frequency, high-intensity (quasi-stationary) excitation of the photoemission leads to an exponentially high contrast of the coherent control.