An international team of researchers including members of the Quantum-Nanostructures and Nanofabrication group at MIT, Deutsches-Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY, Germany), Max-Planck for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (Germany) and WiredSense published a manuscript titled “On-chip petahertz electronics for single-shot phase detection” in Nature Communications. They report on the large-scale integration of petahertz electronics, based on plasmonic nanoantenna arrays, to make a sensitive phase detector with broad applications in ultrafast optics and attosecond science. Their results were made possible by a combination of state-of-the-art e‑beam lithography at MIT.Nano, cutting-edge laser technology provided by DESY and sensitive electronics developed by the Max-Planck startup WiredSense.
The lead authors in this effort were Matthew Yeung (MIT) and Felix Ritzkowsky (DESY & MIT) with support from Engjell Bebeti, Thomas Gebert, Toru Matsuyama, Matthias Budden, Roland Mainz, Huseyin Cankaya, Karl K. Berggren, Giulio Rossi, Franz Kaertner and Phillip D. Keathley.
Image credit to Dr. Florian Otte.
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On-chip petahertz electronics for single-shot phase detection (Nature Communications)