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ArticleScience advances2023

Free-electron Brewster-transition radiation.

Ruoxi Chen, Jialin Chen, Zheng Gong, Xinyan Zhang, Xingjian Zhu, Yi Yang, Ido Kaminer, Hongsheng Chen, Baile Zhang, Xiao Lin

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Ruoxi ChenInterdisciplinary Center for Quantum Information, State Key Laboratory of Extreme Photonics and Instrumentation, ZJU-Hangzhou Global Scientific and Technological Innovation Center, College of Information Science & Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China.ORCID 0009-0003-7233-4413
Jialin ChenInterdisciplinary Center for Quantum Information, State Key Laboratory of Extreme Photonics and Instrumentation, ZJU-Hangzhou Global Scientific and Technological Innovation Center, College of Information Science & Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China.ORCID 0000-0001-6065-5509
Zheng GongInterdisciplinary Center for Quantum Information, State Key Laboratory of Extreme Photonics and Instrumentation, ZJU-Hangzhou Global Scientific and Technological Innovation Center, College of Information Science & Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China.ORCID 0009-0009-7164-1933
Xinyan ZhangInterdisciplinary Center for Quantum Information, State Key Laboratory of Extreme Photonics and Instrumentation, ZJU-Hangzhou Global Scientific and Technological Innovation Center, College of Information Science & Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China.
Xingjian ZhuSchool of Physics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China.ORCID 0009-0008-6279-7680
Yi YangDepartment of Physics, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, China.ORCID 0000-0003-2879-4968
Ido KaminerDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel.ORCID 0000-0003-2691-1892
Hongsheng ChenInterdisciplinary Center for Quantum Information, State Key Laboratory of Extreme Photonics and Instrumentation, ZJU-Hangzhou Global Scientific and Technological Innovation Center, College of Information Science & Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China.ORCID 0000-0002-5735-9781
Baile ZhangDivision of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637371, Singapore.ORCID 0000-0003-1673-5901
Xiao LinInterdisciplinary Center for Quantum Information, State Key Laboratory of Extreme Photonics and Instrumentation, ZJU-Hangzhou Global Scientific and Technological Innovation Center, College of Information Science & Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China.ORCID 0000-0002-1833-1065

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Abstract

We reveal a mechanism to enhance particle-matter interactions by exploiting the pseudo-Brewster effect of gain materials, presenting an enhancement of at least four orders of magnitude for light emission. This mechanism is enabled by the emergence of an unprecedented phase diagram that maps all phenomena of free-electron transition radiation into three distinct phases in a gain-thickness parameter space, namely, the conventional, intermediate, and Brewster phases, when an electron penetrates a dielectric slab with a modest gain and a finite thickness. Essentially, our revealed mechanism corresponds to the free-electron transition radiation in the Brewster phase, which also features ultrahigh directionality, always at the Brewster angle, regardless of the electron velocity. Counterintuitively, we find that the intensity of this free-electron Brewster-transition radiation is insensitive to the Fabry-Pérot resonance condition and, thus, the variation of slab thickness, and moreover, a weaker gain could lead to a stronger enhancement for light emission.

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