HIGH-CURRENT DENSITY PRODUCED BY FEMTOSECOND NONLINEAR SINGLE-PHOTON PHOTOELECTRIC-EMISSION FROM GOLD

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GIRARDEAUMONTAUT, JP [1 ]
GIRARDEAUMONTAUT, C [1 ]
MOUSTAIZIS, SD [1 ]
FOTAKIS, C [1 ]
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[1] FDN RES & TECHNOL HELLAS,INST ELECTR STRUCT & LASER,GR-71110 IRAKLION,GREECE
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10.1063/1.108923
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The sensitivity of single-photon photoelectric emission of pure-polycrystalline Au induced by a KrF excimer laser emitting at 248 nm pulses of 450 fs duration, has been measured. A nonlinear increase of photoelectric efficiency as a function of the laser peak intensity has been observed. The threshold of this nonlinearity is estimated from the experimental data to be slightly less than 0.1 GW/CM2. This value is in good agreement with earlier observations for W and Zr. We demonstrate that this is the direct consequence of nonequilibrium electron and lattice temperatures produced at the surface by the subpicosecond laser pulses.
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