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Nature Photonics 1, 499 - 500 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2007.154

Nanoplasmonics: Brave new attoworld

Mauro Nisoli1

  1. Mauro Nisoli is at the National Laboratory for Ultrafast and Ultraintense Optical Science, CNR-INFM, Department of Physics, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy.
    e-mail: mauro.nisoli@fisi.polimi.it


Surface plasmons undergo ultrafast dynamics on the attosecond timescale. Probing these ultrabrief effects is notoriously difficult, but a new microscope could pave the way towards an understanding of these fields and, ultimately, control of them.

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