Optical-Field-Controlled Photoemission from Plasmonic Nanoparticles with a Sub-Two-Cycle, 6 nJ, Octave-spanning Ti:sapphire Oscillator

Abstract

We developed an optimized, carrier-envelope-phase-stable Ti:sapphire oscillator that generates 6 nJ pulses compressible to under sub- two- optical-cycles in duration. We used the optimized oscillator to demonstrate carrier-envelope-phase-sensitive (CEP-sensitive) photoemission from metallic nanoparticles in the near-infrared.