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Electrons on a winning streak

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A new optical technique enables electron beam currents to be measured with a femtosecond temporal resolution.

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Figure 1: Schematic of the attosecond streak camera for freely propagating electrons.
Figure 2: Energy spectrum of streaked electrons.

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  1. Dave Kielpinski is Director of the Australian Attosecond Science Facility at the Centre for Quantum Dynamics, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland 4111, Australia,

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