Attosecond-to-Zeptosecond Pulses

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 – Attosecond Physics

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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 was awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter”

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 – Chirped Pulse Amplification

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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 was awarded “for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics” with one half to Arthur Ashkin “for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems”, the other half jointly to Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland “for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses”

Generation of Bright Isolated Attosecond Soft X-ray Pulses Driven by Multicycle Midinfrared Lasers

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Title: Generation of Bright Isolated Attosecond Soft X-ray Pulses Driven by Multicycle Midinfrared Lasers Author(s): Ming-Chang Chen, Christopher Mancuso, Carlos Hernández-García, Franklin Dollar, Ben Galloway, Dimitar Popmintchev, Pei-Chi Huang, Barry Walker, Luis Plaja, Agnieszka A Jaroń-Becker, Andreas Becker, Margaret M Murnane, Henry C Kapteyn, Tenio Popmintchev  Source: PNAS Volume: 11 Pages:[…]