Attosecond science: Recent highlights and future trends

Annual Review of Physical Chemistry

Volumn 63, Issue , 2012, Pages 447-469

  Gallmann, Lukas ^a   Cirelli, Claudio ^a   Keller, Ursula ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Attosecond spectroscopy; Electron dynamics; High harmonic generation; Photoionization; Tunneling; Ultrafast lasers

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; HARMONIC GENERATION; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PARTICLE BEAMS; ULTRAFAST LASERS;

ATTOSECOND SCIENCE; ATTOSECOND SPECTROSCOPIES; ATTOSECONDS; ELECTRON DYNAMICS; FUTURE TRENDS; HIGH HARMONIC GENERATION; SINGLE PHOTON IONIZATION; SPECTROSCOPIC TOOL; TIME-SCALES; TUNNELING;

PHOTOIONIZATION;

EID: 84859909865     PISSN: 0066426X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-physchem-032511-143702     Document Type: Review

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