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Fast-paced photonics

Nature Photonics volume 7, pages 9–12 (2013)Cite this article

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Attosecond photonics has contributed to a wide range of important scientific and technological breakthroughs. The challenges now are to realize high-energy attosecond sources and to simplify attosecond technologies for widespread use.

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Figure 2: Optical apparatus that manipulates the properties of superoctave light pulses to create a sub-cycle light transient of a prescribed electric field waveform.

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Won, R. Fast-paced photonics. Nature Photon 7, 9–12 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2012.335

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