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Ultrafast control

Nature volume 421, pages 593–594 (2003)Cite this article

The successes of two pioneering groups are now brought together to create trains of identical ultrashort laser pulses that can control what's happening inside an atom.

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Figure 1: Locking onto the laser frequency.

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