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No Access Submitted: 19 June 2018 Accepted: 29 August 2018 Published Online: 01 October 2018

  • High spatial coherence in multiphoton-photoemitted electron beams

Appl. Phys. Lett. 113, 143101 (2018); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5045282
Stefan Meier1,a), Takuya Higuchi1, Manuel Nutz2, Alexander Högele2, and Peter Hommelhoff1,b)
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  • Stefan Meier
  • Takuya Higuchi
  • Manuel Nutz
  • Alexander Högele
  • Peter Hommelhoff
ABSTRACT
Nanometer-sharp metallic tips are known to be excellent electron emitters. They are used in highest-resolution electron microscopes in cold field emission mode to generate the most coherent electron beam in continuous-wave operation. For time-resolved operation, sharp metal needle tips have recently been triggered with femtosecond laser pulses. We show here that electrons emitted with near-infrared femtosecond laser pulses at laser oscillator repetition rates show the same spatial coherence properties as electrons in cold field emission mode in cw operation. From electron interference fringes, obtained with the help of a carbon nanotube biprism beam splitter, we deduce a virtual source size of less than (0.65 ± 0.06) nm for both operation modes, a factor of ten smaller than the geometrical source size. These results bear promise for ultrafast electron diffraction, ultrafast electron microscopy, and other techniques relying on highly coherent and ultrafast electron beams.
The authors thank P. Weber for his technical support. This work was supported in part by the European Research Council (Consolidator Grant NearFieldAtto and Starting Grant No. 336749) and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft via the grant SFB 953 and the Nanosystems Initiative Munich (NIM). A.H. also acknowledges the support from the Center for NanoScience (CeNS) and LMUinnovativ.

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