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Open AccessAttosecond field emission
Field emission of electrons underlies great advances in science and technology, ranging from signal processing at ever higher frequencies1 to imaging of the atomic-scale structure of matter2 with picometre resolu...
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Laser picoscopy of valence electrons in solids
Valence electrons contribute a small fraction of the total electron density of materials, but they determine their essential chemical, electronic and optical properties. Strong laser fields can probe electrons...
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Ultimate waveform reproducibility of extreme-ultraviolet pulses by high-harmonic generation in quartz
Optical waveforms of light reproducible with subcycle precision underlie applications of lasers in ultrafast spectroscopies, quantum control of matter and light-based signal processing. Nonlinear upconversion ...
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Multi-petahertz electronic metrology
Investigations using single-cycle intense optical fields to drive electron motion in bulk silicon dioxide show that the light-induced electric currents extend in frequency up to about 8 petahertz.
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Optical attosecond pulses and tracking the nonlinear response of bound electrons
Intense light pulses in the visible and adjacent spectral ranges with their energy mostly confined to a half wave cycle—optical attosecond pulses—are synthesized and used to measure the time it takes electrons...
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Extreme ultraviolet high-harmonic spectroscopy of solids
Intense light interacting with a thin film of silicon dioxide is used to generate broadband extreme ultraviolet radiation; the spectra reveal detailed information on the energy dispersion of the conduction ban...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Sub-100-as soft x-ray pulses
We demonstrate the generation of powerful sub-100-as soft x-ray pulses by means of 1.5-cycle waveform-controlled laser fields. Our new tool opens the door for exploring electronic processes on a time scale app...
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Open AccessThe accurate FROG characterization of attosecond pulses from streaking measurements
We describe a new attosecond FROG algorithm optimized for the characterization of sub-100 as pulses from streaked electron spectra. We make improvements upon the treatment of the attosecond streaking spectrogr...
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Toward a terawatt few-optical-cycle driver laser for attosecond spectroscopy
We discuss routes towards develo** an ultra-high peak power phase-stable source of few-cycle laser pulses suitable for driving a wide range of strong-field applications. Experiments with a phase-stable 0.1-T...
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Long-term stabilization of the carrier-envelope phase of few-cycle laser pulses
The temporal variation of the electromagnetic field of a few-cycle laser pulse depends on whether the maximum of the pulse amplitude coincides with that of the wave cycle or not, i.e., it depends on the phase ...
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Atomic transient recorder
In Bohr's model of the hydrogen atom, the electron takes about 150 attoseconds (1 as = 10-18 s) to orbit around the proton, defining the characteristic timescale for dynamics in the electronic shell of atoms. Rec...
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Measurement of the Absolute Phase of few-Cycle Laser Pulses
Recent developments of laser technology led to the generation of laser pulses with a duration (measured at full-width half maximum) of less than 5fs [1]. At a typical wavelength of 750nm, an optical cycle has ...
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Stabilization and Characterization of the Carrier-Envelope Phase in Intense Few-Cycle Pulses
We demonstrate a phase-stabilized 5-fs 0.1-TW amplified laser system that delivers pulses with exactly reproducible electric fields. Full temporal characterization of the resultant intense few-cycle light wave...
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Reproducible Generation and Measurement of Isolated Sub-fs XUV Pulses with Phase-Controlled Few-Cycle Light
We report on the use of intense phase-controlled few-cycle(5-fs @ 750 nm)pulses for the reproducible generation of high-order-harmonic-like XUV radiation near 100 eV and for measuring the temporal structure of...
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Attosecond control of electronic processes by intense light fields
The amplitude and frequency of laser light can be routinely measured and controlled on a femtosecond (10-15 s) timescale1. However, in pulses comprising just a few wave cycles, the amplitude envelope and carrier ...
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A dispersionless Michelson interferometer for the characterization of attosecond pulses
A novel application of a free-standing transmission grating as a beam splitter in a Michelson-type interferometer is described. The arrangement can operate in the XUV and soft X-ray spectral region and, theref...
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Kilohertz extreme-ultraviolet light source based on femtosecond high-order harmonic generation from noble gases
A compact, versatile table-top kilohertz source of coherent extreme-ultraviolet (XUV) radiation in the wavelength region 18–100 nm, based on high-order harmonic generation from noble gases induced by a 40-femt...