Addendum: Optical-field-induced current in dielectrics

Electric-field induced surface instabilities of soft dielectrics and their effects on optical transmittance and scattering

Near-field optical beam induced current measurements on heterostructures

We report near-field optical beam induced current ~NOBIC! measurements on semiconductor quantum well ~QW! structures. A subwavelength fiber tip is coupled with a tunable laser source and scanned over a sample surface. The induced photocurrent reveals the compositional profile of quantum structures. Semiconductor QW structures were designed and fabricated by molecular beam epitaxy ~MBE! to study...

Cavity field in liquid dielectrics

Semimetallization of dielectrics in strong optical fields

At the heart of ever growing demands for faster signal processing is ultrafast charge transport and control by electromagnetic fields in semiconductors. Intense optical fields have opened fascinating avenues for new phenomena and applications in solids. Because the period of optical fields is on the order of a femtosecond, the current switching and its control by an optical field may pave a way...

Field quantization in inhomogeneous absorptive dielectrics

L. G. Suttorp and Martijn Wubs Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Amsterdam, Valckenierstraat 65, NL-1018 XE Amsterdam, The Netherlands Complex Photonic Systems, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Twente, P. O. Box 217, NL-7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands Van der Waals–Zeeman Institute, University of Amsterdam, Valckenierstraat 65, NL-1018 XE Amsterdam, The Netherla...