Direct observation of attosecond light bunching

Nature

Volumn 426, Issue 6964, 2003, Pages 267-271

  Tzallas, P ^a   Charalambidis, D ^b,c   Papadogiannis, N A ^b,c   Witte, K ^a   Tsakiris, G D ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOURIER OPTICS; HARMONIC GENERATION; OPTICAL CORRELATION; OPTICAL PUMPING; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

AUTOCORRELATION TECHNIQUES; CROSS-CORRELATION METHODS; LIGHT BUNCHING; TEMPORAL VARIABLES CONTROL;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

OPTICAL METHOD;

ARTICLE; DYNAMICS; LIGHT; OBSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DESIGN;

EID: 0344011983     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02091     Document Type: Article

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