Strong-field lightwave electronics in solids (S02)

• Subject Area: Experimental Condensed Matter Physics ; Optics, Quantum Optics and Physics of Atoms, Molecules and Plasmas
• Term: since 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 441234705

In project S02, we will investigate the possibility of directly controlling electrons in solids with electric fields of intense laser pulses, which opens up routes for developing lightwave-driven electronics at petahertz rates. Progress along this route requires the understanding of intense laser-solid interactions on sub-cycle time-scale. We will use of the valley degree of freedom of crystals and the electronic coherence to perform elementary operations at the few-femtosecond time scale. We will apply the highly nonlinear optical response and machine learning to write and read-out the information in solids and to resolve electron dynamics on sub-femtosecond and sub-angstrom scale.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1477: Light-Matter Interactions at Interfaces (LiMatI)
• Applicant Institution: Universität Rostock
• Project Heads: Professor Eleftherios Goulielmakis, Ph.D., since 1/2022; Professor Dr. Mikhail Ivanov, since 1/2022