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Optical waveform reconstruction

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The direct measurement of few-cycle optical waveforms with arbitrary polarization and weak intensity is now made possible thanks to extreme ultraviolet interferometry with isolated attosecond pulses.

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Figure 1: Schematic of optical field reconstruction.

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Salières, P. Optical waveform reconstruction. Nature Photon 11, 333–335 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2017.80

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