Optical-induced electrical current in diamond switched by femtosecond-attosecond laser pulses by ab initio simulations

L. L. Gao; F. Wang; L. Jiang; L. T. Qu; Y. F. Lu

doi:10.1088/0022-3727/49/2/025102

Optical-induced electrical current in diamond switched by femtosecond-attosecond laser pulses by ab initio simulations

L. L. Gao, F. Wang, L. Jiang, L. T. Qu, Y. F. Lu

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Abstract

The electric current has been switched in diamond by a dual-laser field with an attosecond pulse train and a femtosecond laser, respectively serving to excite and drive electrons. The optical-induced current is simulated by the developed method based on the time-dependent density functional theory. The electric current is induced within several attoseconds with the diamond's conductivity increased by 16∼23 orders of magnitude. Our work opens the way to extending electronic signal processing from the present gigahertz domain into the exahertz domain.

Original language	English
Article number	025102
Journal	Journal Physics D: Applied Physics
Volume	49
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/0022-3727/49/2/025102
Publication status	Published - 30 Nov 2015

Keywords

TDDFT
attosecond laser
dielectrics
femtosecond laser
light switch

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Optical-induced electrical current in diamond switched by femtosecond-attosecond laser pulses by ab initio simulations

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