The femtosecond frequency comb allows controlling the carrier field of ultrashort laser pulses. We show two examples on how this control over fields oscillating with a few hundred terahertz can be utilized to control electrons at the surface and in the volume of solids. After a brief discussion of strong-field physics at metal needle tips, we show how ultrafast two-color laser pulses allow quantum path interference to dramatically alter the emission current from sharp tips, with an interference visibility of 94%. With carrier-envelope phase-controlled laser pulses, we show furthermore how light-field sensitive currents can be excited in monolayer graphene via an interplay of interband and intraband electron dynamics including multiple Landau-Zener transitions.
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Hommelhoff, P. (2018). Coherence in laser-driven electrons at the surface and in the volume of solid matter. In Exploring the World with the Laser: Dedicated to Theodor Hänsch on his 75th Birthday (pp. 129–139). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64346-5_9
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