| AVS 55th International Symposium & Exhibition | |
| IPF 2008 Frontiers in Imaging: from Cosmos to Nano | Monday Sessions |
| Session IPF+NC-MoA |
| Session: | Materials Imaging with Subatomic Resolution |
| Presenter: | M.I. Stockman, Georgia State University |
| Authors: | M.I. Stockman, Georgia State University U. Kleineberg, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Germany M. Kling, Max Plank Institute for Quantum Optics, Germany F. Krausz, Max Plank Institute for Quantum Optics, Germany |
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Nanoplasmonics deals with collective electronic dynamics, which arises due to elementary excitations called surface plasmons. Because of the very broad bandwidth, the surface plasmons undergo ultrafast dynamics unfolding on time scales as short as a few hundred attoseconds. So far, the ultrafast spatiotemporal dynamics on the nanoscale has been hidden from direct access in the real space and time. We propose an approach that will, for the first time, provide direct, non-invasive access to the nanoplasmonic dynamics with nanometer-scale spatial resolution and on the order of a few hundred attoseconds temporal resolution. This method combines photoelectron emission microscopy and attosecond streaking metrology. It offers a valuable new way of probing ultrafast nanolocalized fields in nanoplasmonic systems. This approach will be interesting both from a fundamental point of view and in the light of the existing and potential applications of nanoplasmonics.