• Accepted Paper

Intracycle interference in strong-field photoemission from a tungsten needle tip

Timo Wirth, Jonas Heimerl, Stefan Meier, and Peter Hommelhoff

Phys. Rev. Lett. - Accepted 27 August, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/t87j-1ngl

Abstract

Electrons photoemitted by strong laser fields can rescatter, generating attosecond high harmonics. Spectral peaks arise from inter- and intracycle interference of coherent electron wave packets. While intercycle interference is well known, intracycle interference of plateau electrons has not been observed. We present carrier-envelope phase–resolved photoemission spectra from a nanometric tungsten needle tip driven at 1570,nm revealing such interference, supported by quantum orbit and TDSE simulations that elucidate attosecond-scale electron dynamics.

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