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2014-09-24
Making Optical Waves, Tracing Electrons in Real-Time: the Onset of the Attosecond Realm (Invited Review)
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Progress In Electromagnetics Research, Vol. 147, 127-140, 2014
Abstract
Tracing the dynamics of electrons inside atoms molecules or solids as they occur in real time resides at the forefront of modern science and technology. Advances in attosecond physics over the last decade and beyond are now enabling this essential experimental capability. Here we discuss some of the key developments in light sciences that made possible attosecond metrology and control of electronic processes inside matter on native time scales. These developments hold the promise for new, fundamental insights into the innerworkings of the microcosm as well as the identification of innovative routes for light-based electronic and photonic devices operating at PHz rates.
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Eleftherios Goulielmakis, and Ferenc Krausz, "Making Optical Waves, Tracing Electrons in Real-Time: the Onset of the Attosecond Realm (Invited Review)," Progress In Electromagnetics Research, Vol. 147, 127-140, 2014.
doi:10.2528/PIER14091402
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