Colloquium
- Author(s)
- Stanislav Yu. Kruchinin, Ferenc Krausz, Vladislav S. Yakovlev
- Abstract
The advent of visible-infrared laser pulses carrying a substantial fraction of their energy in a single field oscillation cycle has opened a new era in the experimental investigation of ultrafast processes in semiconductors and dielectrics (bulk as well as nanostructured), motivated by the quest for the ultimate frontiers of electron-based signal metrology and processing. Exploring ways to approach those frontiers requires insight into the physics underlying the interaction of strong high-frequency (optical) fields with electrons moving in periodic potentials. This Colloquium aims at providing this insight. Introduction to the foundations of strong-field phenomena defines and compares regimes of field-matter interaction in periodic systems, including (perfect) crystals as well as optical and semiconductor superlattices, followed by a review of recent experimental advances in the study of strong-field dynamics in crystals and nanostructures. Avenues toward measuring and controlling electronic processes up to petahertz frequencies are discussed.
- Organisation(s)
- Computational Materials Physics
- External organisation(s)
- Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- Journal
- Reviews of Modern Physics
- Volume
- 90
- No. of pages
- 27
- ISSN
- 0034-6861
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.90.021002
- Publication date
- 04-2018
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103025 Quantum mechanics, 103015 Condensed matter, 103021 Optics
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Physics and Astronomy
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/fe14a29c-4469-4681-8def-0d48482ab6b4