Abstract
Laser-driven ultrafast electron emission [1, 2] is important to free electron lasers (FELs), laser acceleration of relativistic electrons, and ultrafast electron diffraction. It would enable exciting technological development on four-dimensional (4D) time-resolved electron microscopy [3]. We constructed an analytic solution for the highly nonlinear electron emission from a metal surface that is exposed to both a dc biased electric field and a single frequency laser field [4]. The solution is valid for arbitrary combinations of dc electric field, laser electric field, laser frequency, metal work function and Fermi level. Various emission mechanisms, such as multiphoton absorption or emission, optical or dc field emission, are all included in this single formulation. The time-dependent emission current reveals that intense current modulation may be possible even with a low intensity laser, by merely increasing the applied dc bias.
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