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Conducting the beat

The ability to generate intense attosecond pulses of light promises unprecedented opportunities to study the lightest and fastest of all chemically relevant particles — electrons. Two techniques demonstrate progress towards measuring and controlling their attosecond dynamics.

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Figure 1: Illustrating the use of shearing interferometry for measuring the spatial phase profiles of laser beams and electron wavefunctions.

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Pfeifer, T. Conducting the beat. Nature Phys 2, 297–298 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys303

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