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Tailoring extreme-ultraviolet light

The emission direction and timing of extreme-ultraviolet light can now be manipulated through an opto-optical approach that uses an infrared pulse to control the spatial and spectral phase of free induction decay resulting from atoms excited by attosecond light.

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Figure 1: XUV FID and the control of its direction by an IR pulse.

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Sekikawa, T., Ishikawa, K. Tailoring extreme-ultraviolet light. Nature Photon 11, 209–210 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2017.44

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