No ordinary camera can capture the motion of electrons inside an atom. But the advent of ultrafast laser pulses brings the necessary 'shutter speed' for snapping them as they tumble between energy levels close to the nucleus.
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L. F. DIMAURO
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DiMauro, L. Atomic photography. Nature 419, 789–790 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/419789a
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