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| author | Zhang, Hao Mann, Joshua Rosenzweig, James Chini, Michael Carbajo, Sergio |
| author_facet | Zhang, Hao Mann, Joshua Rosenzweig, James Chini, Michael Carbajo, Sergio |
| contents | Gas-filled waveguides enable few-cycle, spatio-temporally coupled (STC) pulses with programmable structure, opening new routes to control charged particles with optical fields. This review maps the landscape of optical-field-driven photoemission, then surveys gas-based nonlinear drivers, photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) for low-energy, high-repetition operation and hollow-core capillaries (HCCs) for high-power, few-cycle synthesis. We highlight mechanisms for deterministic pulse shaping, including four-wave-mixing-based spectral-phase transfer in HCCs, and show how tailored STC waveforms steer emission dynamics from the multiphoton to tunneling regimes, enabling sub-cycle gating, momentum control, and brightness scaling. We conclude with open challenges: phase stability, mid-IR scalability, coupling to nanophotonic emitters, metrology of vectorial fields, and outline a path toward compact, ultrafast, phase-coherent electron sources and emerging quantum applications powered by nonlinear photonics. |
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| publishDate | 2025 |
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| spellingShingle | Charged-particle control via spatio-temporally tailored pulses from gas-based nonlinear optics Zhang, Hao Mann, Joshua Rosenzweig, James Chini, Michael Carbajo, Sergio Optics Gas-filled waveguides enable few-cycle, spatio-temporally coupled (STC) pulses with programmable structure, opening new routes to control charged particles with optical fields. This review maps the landscape of optical-field-driven photoemission, then surveys gas-based nonlinear drivers, photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) for low-energy, high-repetition operation and hollow-core capillaries (HCCs) for high-power, few-cycle synthesis. We highlight mechanisms for deterministic pulse shaping, including four-wave-mixing-based spectral-phase transfer in HCCs, and show how tailored STC waveforms steer emission dynamics from the multiphoton to tunneling regimes, enabling sub-cycle gating, momentum control, and brightness scaling. We conclude with open challenges: phase stability, mid-IR scalability, coupling to nanophotonic emitters, metrology of vectorial fields, and outline a path toward compact, ultrafast, phase-coherent electron sources and emerging quantum applications powered by nonlinear photonics. |
| title | Charged-particle control via spatio-temporally tailored pulses from gas-based nonlinear optics |
| topic | Optics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.11507 |