The present status and development of strong-field nano-optics, an emerging field of
nonlinear optics, is discussed. A nonperturbative regime of light-matter interactions is …

This review focuses on the generation of energetic (hot) electrons in plasmonic
metastructures and nanomaterials, and their characterization through time-resolved …

Recently two emerging areas of research, attosecond and nanoscale physics, have started
to come together. Attosecond physics deals with phenomena occurring when ultrashort laser …

Free electrons are essential in such diverse applications as electron microscopes,
accelerators and photoemission spectroscopy. However, the space charge effects of many …

We demonstrate the ultrafast generation of electrons from tailored metallic nanoparticles and
unravel the role of plasmonic field enhancement in this process by comparing resonant and …

Attosecond science is based on electron dynamics driven by a strong optical electric field
and has evolved beyond its original scope in gas-phase atomic and molecular physics to …

To combine the advantages of ultrafast femtosecond nano-optics with an on-chip
communication scheme, optical signals with a frequency of several hundreds of THz need to …

We demonstrate coherent control of multiphoton and above-threshold photoemission from a
single solid-state nanoemitter driven by a fundamental and a weak second harmonic laser …

Laser-driven ultrafast electron emission offers the possibility of manipulation and control of
coherent electron motion in ultrashort spatiotemporal scales. Here, an analytical solution is …

Electrons ejected from atoms and subsequently driven to high energies in strong laser fields
enable techniques from attosecond pulse generation to imaging with rescattered electrons …