Extremely Nonperturbative Nonlinearities in GaAs Driven by Atomically Strong Terahertz Fields in Gold Metamaterials

URN to cite this document:: urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-310313
DOI to cite this document:: 10.5283/epub.31031

Lange, Christoph ; Maag, Thomas ; Hohenleutner, Matthias ; Baierl, Sebastian ; Schubert, Olaf ; Edwards, E. R. J. ; Bougeard, Dominique ; Woltersdorf, Georg ; Huber, Rupert

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Abstract

erahertz near fields of gold metamaterials resonant at a frequency of 0.88 THz allow us to enter an extreme limit of nonperturbative ultrafast terahertz electronics: Fields reaching a ponderomotive energy in the keV range are exploited to drive nondestructive, quasistatic interband tunneling and impact ionization in undoped bulk GaAs, injecting electron-hole plasmas with densities in excess of ...