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20152026
most citedCoherent interaction between free electrons and a photonic cavity

223 citations · 691 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

physics.optics2026

Spatiotemporal Electron Microscopy of Phonon Polaritons in MoO3

Harel Nahari, Yaniv Kurman, Raphael Dahan +5

Photon-induced near-field electron microscopy (PINEM) has emerged as a powerful technique for imaging optical excitations with nanometer spatial and sub-picosecond temporal resolut…

physics.optics2025

Realization of a Pre-Sample Photonic-based Free-Electron Modulator in Ultrafast Transmission Electron Microscopes

Beatrice Matilde Ferrari, Cameron James Richard Duncan, Michael Yannai +16

Spatial and temporal light modulation is a well-established technology that enables dynamic shaping of the phase and amplitude of optical fields, significantly enhancing the resolu…

physics.optics2023★ 21 cited

Free-Electron Ramsey-Type Interferometry for Enhanced Amplitude and Phase imaging of Nearfields

Tomer Bucher, Ron Ruimy, Shai Tsesses +4

The complex range of interactions between electrons and electromagnetic fields gave rise to countless scientific and technological advances. A prime example is photon-induced nearf…

physics.optics2023★ 36 cited

Coherently amplified ultrafast imaging using a free-electron interferometer

Tomer Bucher, Harel Nahari, Hanan Herzig Sheinfux +18

Accessing the low-energy non-equilibrium dynamics of materials and their polaritons with simultaneous high spatial and temporal resolution has been a bold frontier of electron micr…

quant-ph2023★ 21 cited

Free-electron interactions with photonic GKP states: universal control and quantum error correction

Gefen Baranes, Shiran Even-Haim, Ron Ruimy +5

We show that the coherent interaction between free electrons and photons can be used for universal control of continuous-variable photonic quantum states in the form of Gottesman-K…

physics.acc-ph2022★ 10 cited

Imaging the field inside nanophotonic devices

Tal Fishman, Urs Haeusler, Raphael Dahan +9

Controlling optical fields on the subwavelength scale is at the core of any nanophotonic device. Of particular interest are nanophotonic particle accelerators that promise a compac…

quant-ph2022★ 50 cited

Creation of Optical Cat and GKP States Using Shaped Free Electrons

Raphael Dahan, Gefen Baranes, Alexey Gorlach +3

Cat states and Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) states play a key role in quantum computation and communication with continuous variables. The creation of such states relies on stro…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 27 cited

Ultrafast Electron Microscopy of Nanoscale Charge Dynamics in Semiconductors

Michael Yannai, Raphael Dahan, Alexey Gorlach +11

The ultrafast dynamics of charge carriers in solids plays a pivotal role in emerging optoelectronics, photonics, energy harvesting, and quantum technology applications. However, th…

physics.app-ph2022

Charge dynamics electron microscopy: nanoscale imaging of femtosecond plasma dynamics

Ivan Madan, Eduardo J. C. Dias, Simone Gargiulo +11

Understanding and actively controlling the spatio-temporal dynamics of non-equilibrium electron clouds is fundamental for the design of light and electron sources, novel high-power…

quant-ph2022★ 58 cited

Observation of 2D Cherenkov radiation

Yuval Adiv, Hao Hu, Shai Tsesses +8

For over 80 years of research, the conventional description of free-electron radiation phenomena, such as Cherenkov radiation, has remained unchanged: classical three-dimensional e…

physics.optics2022★ 61 cited

Tunable photon-induced spatial modulation of free electrons

Shai Tsesses, Raphael Dahan, Kangpeng Wang +3

Spatial modulation of electron beams is an essential tool for various applications such as nanolithography and imaging, yet its implementations are severely limited and inherently…

quant-ph2021★ 3 cited

Imprinting the quantum statistics of photons on free electrons

Raphael Dahan, Alexey Gorlach, Urs Haeusler +8

The fundamental interaction between free electrons and light stands at the base of both classical and quantum physics, with applications in free-electron acceleration, radiation so…

quant-ph2020★ 9 cited

Ultrafast non-destructive measurement of the quantum state of light using free electrons

Alexey Gorlach, Aviv Karnieli, Raphael Dahan +3

Since the birth of quantum optics, the measurement of quantum states of nonclassical light has been of tremendous importance for advancement in the field. To date, conventional det…

physics.optics2019★ 170 cited

Observation of the Stimulated Quantum Cherenkov Effect

Saar Nehemia, Raphael Dahan, Michael Shentcis +8

As charged particles surpass the speed of light in an optical medium they produce radiation - analogously to the way jet planes surpass the speed of sound and produce a sonic boom.…

physics.optics2019★ 223 cited

Coherent interaction between free electrons and a photonic cavity

Kangpeng Wang, Raphael Dahan, Michael Shentcis +5

Since its inception, research of cavity quantum electrodynamics (CQED) has extended our understanding of light-matter interactions and our ability to utilize them. Thus far, all th…

physics.gen-ph2015★ 2 cited

Droplets Acoustics

Raphael Dahan, Leopoldo L. Martin, Tal Carmon

Contrary to their capillary resonances (Rayleigh, 1879) and their optical resonances (Ashkin, 1977), droplets acoustical resonances were rarely considered. Here we experimentally e…