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Attosecond control of electronic processes by intense light fields
Abstract
The amplitude and frequency of laser light can be routinely measured and controlled on a femtosecond (10(-15) s) timescale. However, in pulses comprising just a few wave cycles, the amplitude envelope and carrier frequency are not sufficient to characterize and control laser radiation, because evolution of the light field is also influenced by a shift of the carrier wave with respect to the pulse peak. This so-called carrier-envelope phase has been predicted and observed to affect strong-field phenomena, but random shot-to-shot shifts have prevented the reproducible guiding of atomic processes using the electric field of light. Here we report the generation of intense, few-cycle laser pulses with a stable carrier envelope phase that permit the triggering and steering of microscopic motion with an ultimate precision limited only by quantum mechanical uncertainty. Using these reproducible light waveforms, we create light-induced atomic currents in ionized matter; the motion of the electronic wave packets can be controlled on timescales shorter than 250 attoseconds (250 x 10(-18) s). This enables us to control the attosecond temporal structure of coherent soft X-ray emission produced by the atomic currents--these X-ray photons provide a sensitive and intuitive tool for determining the carrier-envelope phase.
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“The unique combination of quantum coherence and macroscopic physics has made it possible both to optimize emission to a particular harmonic order using pulse shaping [126], and to generate the smooth supercontinuum spectrum of a single attosecond burst [135, 136].”
From Roadmap of ultrafast x-ray atomic and molecular physics (2018) · cites this paper as [135]
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Metadata
- Authors
- Baltuška, A., Udem, T., Uiberacker, M., Hentschel, M., Goulielmakis, E., Gohle, C., Holzwarth, R., Yakovlev, V. S., Scrinzi, A., Hänsch, T. W., & Krausz, F.
- Affiliations
- TU Wien (AT)
- Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Krausz, F.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 2003-02-06
- Volume
- 421
- Issue
- 6923
- Pages
- 611-615
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- OpenAlex
- W2043059847
- Cited by
- 1,653
- References
- 31
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- FWCI
- 78.98
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Update notices
- erratum (2003-03-13)
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Nature (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (submittedVersion)
- The HKU Scholars Hub (University of Hong Kong) (submittedVersion)
- MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Austrian Science Fund
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering › Laser Material Processing Techniques
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Nuclear and High Energy Physics › Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics
- Keywords
- carrier-envelope phase, few-cycle pulses, attosecond control, strong-field electron dynamics, electron wave packets, intense laser fields, carrier-envelope phase stability
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