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Attosecond coherent control at FELs

Coherent control joins the nonlinear optical toolbox for free-electron lasers and demonstrates phase control on the attosecond scale.

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Figure 1: Schematic of the experimental set-up used by Prince et al.7 to control photoelectron distribution.

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Hartmann, N., Glownia, J. Attosecond coherent control at FELs. Nature Photon 10, 148–150 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2016.24

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