Graphene Metamaterials for Intense, Tunable, and Compact Extreme Ultraviolet and X‐Ray Sources
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Author(s)
Pizzi, Andrea
Rosolen, Gilles
Wong, Liang Jie
Ischebeck, Rasmus
Soljacic, Marin
Feurer, Thomas
Kaminer, Ido
Date Issued
2019
Journal
Advanced Science
Publisher
Wiley
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Final published version
Abstract
© 2019 The Authors. Published by WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim The interaction of electrons with strong electromagnetic fields is fundamental to the ability to design high-quality radiation sources. At the core of all such sources is a tradeoff between compactness and higher output radiation intensities. Conventional photonic devices are limited in size by their operating wavelength, which helps compactness at the cost of a small interaction area. Here, plasmonic modes supported by multilayer graphene metamaterials are shown to provide a larger interaction area with the electron beam, while also tapping into the extreme confinement of graphene plasmons to generate high-frequency photons with relatively low-energy electrons available from tabletop sources. For 5 MeV electrons, a metamaterial of 50 layers and length 50 µm, and a beam current of 1.7 µA, it is, for instance, possible to generate X-rays of intensity 1.5 × 107 photons sr−1 s−1 1%BW, 580 times more than for a single-layer design. The frequency of the driving laser dynamically tunes the photon emission spectrum. This work demonstrates a unique free-electron light source, wherein the electron mean free path in a given material is longer than the device length, relaxing the requirements of complex electron beam systems and potentially paving the way to high-yield, compact, and tunable X-ray sources.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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https://doi.org/10.1002/ADVS.201901609
