LEADER 03991nam 22006855 450 001 996418447803316 005 20200903175835.0 010 $a3-030-52836-7 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-52836-2 035 $a(CKB)4100000011413854 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-52836-2 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6336361 035 $a(PPN)250221446 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011413854 100 $a20200903d2020 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aImaging Light with Photoelectrons on the Nano-Femto Scale$b[electronic resource] /$fby Yanan Dai 205 $a1st ed. 2020. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource (XV, 115 p. 77 illus., 68 illus. in color.) 225 1 $aSpringer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,$x2190-5053 311 $a3-030-52835-9 327 $aChapter1: Introduction -- Chapter2: Experimental Methods -- Chapter3: Simulation Framework -- Chapter4: Propagating Surface Plasmon Polaritons (SPPs) -- Chapter5: Spin Angular Momenta and Chirality of SPPs -- Chapter6: Plasmon Orbital Angular Momentum Generation -- Chapter7: Summary and Perspectives. 330 $aThis thesis presents significant advances in the imaging and theory of the ultrafast dynamics of surface plasmon polariton fields. The author details construction of a sub-10 femtosecond and sub-10 nanometer spatiotemporal resolution ultrafast photoemission microscope which is subsequently used for the discovery of topological meron and skyrmion-like plasmonic quasiparticles. In particular, this enabled the creation of movies of the surface plasmon polariton fields evolving on sub-optical wavelength scales at around 0.1 femtosecond per image frame undergoing vortex phase evolution. The key insight that the transverse spin of surface plasmon polaritons undergoes a texturing into meron or skyrmion-like topological quasiparticles (defined by the geometric charge of the preparation) follows. In addition, this thesis develops an analytical theory of these new topological quasiparticles, opening new avenues of research, while the ultrafast microscopy techniques established within will also be broadly applicable to studies of nanoscale optical excitations in electronic materials. 410 0$aSpringer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,$x2190-5053 606 $aSpectroscopy 606 $aMicroscopy 606 $aChemistry, Physical and theoretical 606 $aLasers 606 $aPhotonics 606 $aOptical materials 606 $aElectronic materials 606 $aSpectroscopy and Microscopy$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P31090 606 $aTheoretical and Computational Chemistry$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/C25007 606 $aOptics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P31030 606 $aOptical and Electronic Materials$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Z12000 615 0$aSpectroscopy. 615 0$aMicroscopy. 615 0$aChemistry, Physical and theoretical. 615 0$aLasers. 615 0$aPhotonics. 615 0$aOptical materials. 615 0$aElectronic materials. 615 14$aSpectroscopy and Microscopy. 615 24$aTheoretical and Computational Chemistry. 615 24$aOptics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices. 615 24$aOptical and Electronic Materials. 676 $a537.56 700 $aDai$b Yanan$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0843124 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996418447803316 996 $aImaging Light with Photoelectrons on the Nano-Femto Scale$91881538 997 $aUNISA