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attosecond

One quintillionth of a second. See space/time and ohnosecond.

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Attosecond pulses have a different purpose, to look at electron dynamics or to image electron movement.

Optics in the fast lane: Keely Portway discovers how optics are expanding the horizons for ultrafast lasers

Serbinenko et al., "Attosecond tunnelling interferometry," Nature Physics, vol.

A Probability Distribution for Quantum Tunneling Times

Hommelhoff, "Attosecond physics in photoemission from a metal nanotip," Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, vol.

Electronic Pulses from Pulsed Field Emission of CNT Cathodes

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

Bandrauk, "Attosecond pulse generation from aligned molecules-dynamics and propagation in H+," New Journal of Physics, Vol.

Hybrid Simulation of Maxwell-Schrodinger Equations for Multi-Physics Problems Characterized by Anharmonic Electrostatic Potential

Coherent nuclear dynamics can be followed in this way [15, 25-27] because the elastic scattering of fast electrons proceeds on an ultrashort (ultimately attosecond) time scale and represents a nondestructive probing technique [15, 25, 26].

Molecular tomography of the quantum state by time-resolved electron diffraction

The winner of the King Faisal International Prize (KFIP) for science yesterday said that the Kingdom is interested in exchanging its experience in attosecond science and technology with the world.

KFIP winners laud KSA efforts to boost technology

The strong-field process of HHG provides a source of coherent femtosecond and attosecond pulses in the extreme ultraviolet (XUV) with a wide variety of applications [1].

Strong field-induced frequency conversion of laser radiation in plasma plumes: recent achievements

a long time compared to the femtosecond, the attosecond and the shortest possible unit of time - known as Planck time.

All the times in the world; FROM OLD ROCKS TO RAILWAY CLOCKS.

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.