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attosecond

One quintillionth of a second. See space/time and ohnosecond.
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Attosecond spectroscopy now directly addresses the fundamentals of the interaction of light with matter.
Physicists Make Major Breakthrough On Einstein's Photoelectric Effect
A key tool to track the dynamics of core-excitons has been the development of attosecond light flashes in the optical range.
Ultrafast Snapshots of Relaxing Electrons in Solids
Corkum, research chair in Attosecond Photonics at the University of Ottawa in Canada, delivered a lecture on "Chasing and steering electrons" at the King Adbul Aziz City For Science and Technology(KACST) in Riyadh on Sunday.
KFIP winners laud KSA efforts to boost technology
research in the field of attosecond spectroscopy (1 attosecond = 10-18 s) the
Swiss Scientists visualized the motions of electrons or the first time
The keynote, plenary, and invited papers cover generating and characterizing attosecond high harmonic pulses, high power lasers and interactions, laser accelerators, and problems and breakthroughs in laser techniques in conserving artwork.
Laser science and applications; proceedings
Optical pulses only a few femtosecond long have been used for several years now in high resolution time domain spectroscopy, but a number of processes in the natural world are much faster yet, so attosecond laser pulses have now been developed to investigate them.
From femto-to attoscience and beyond
Research at the Joint Laboratory for Attosecond Science (JASLab) may lead to scientific breakthroughs in health care, diagnostic medicine, quantum computing, nanotechnology, environmental science and energy.
Atomic freeze frame
KOSLOWSKI, Modified Schrodinger equation for attosecond laser pulse interaction with matter.
Un esquema de diferencias finitas que conserva la positividad de una ecuacion modificada de Fisher-KPP
The selected awards include a multimodality spectroscope for nanoscale optical imaging the structure of peptides, proteins, and viruses in their native environment; remote nondestructive testing and measurement of power systems for isolating and diagnosing failures in the power grid; and laser instrumentation for attosecond experimentation to probe the fast electron dynamics in electronic devices.
Department of defense news release (March 9, 2004): transformational instrumentation research grants announced
Opening up the attosecond timescale could therefore provide new insights into the incredibly fast processes of the atomic world.
WAS THAT IT?; Scientists measure the shortest time period ever
Opening up the attosecond timescale could provide new insights into the incredibly fast processes of the atomic world.
Experiment over in a flash
The TIA measures amplitudes down to less than 10 attoseconds (1 attosecond is [10.
Methods for measuring periodic modulations: don't let jitter analysis shake you up. Here are some guidelines to help you choose which instrument to use for your particular application

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