53-attosecond X-ray pulses reach the carbon K-edge
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The motion of electrons in the microcosm occurs on a time scale set by the atomic unit of time—24 attoseconds. Attosecond pulses at photon energies corresponding to the fundamental absorption edges of matter, which lie in the soft X-ray regime above 200 eV, permit the probing of electronic excitation, chemical state, and atomic structure. Here we demonstrate a soft X-ray pulse duration of 53 as and single pulse streaking reaching the carbon K-absorption edge (284 eV) by utilizing intense two-cycle driving pulses near 1.8-μm center wavelength. Such pulses permit studies of electron dynamics in live biological samples and next-generation electronic materials such as diamond.
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Attosecond pulses as short as 53 attoseconds in the XUV or x-ray spectral regions are reported.
“attosecond pulses as short as 53 attoseconds in the XUV or x-ray spectral regions, are reported [208].”
From Roadmap of ultrafast x-ray atomic and molecular physics (2018) · cites this paper as [208]
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- Authors
- Li, J., Ren, X., Yin, Y., Zhao, K., Chew, A., Cheng, Y., Cunningham, E., Wang, Y., Hu, S., Wu, Y., Chini, M., & Chang, Z.
- Affiliations
- University of Central Florida (US)
- Corresponding author
- Chang, Zenghu
- ORCID
- Venue
- Nature Communications
- Published
- 2017-08-04
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 186-186
- ISSN
- 2041-1723 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC5543167
- OpenAlex
- W2741726665
- Cited by
- 463
- References
- 30
- Citations by year
- 2026: 33 · 2025: 43 · 2024: 51 · 2023: 59 · 2022: 51 · 2021: 43 · 2020: 56 · 2019: 64 · 2018: 52 · 2017: 11
- FWCI
- 24.56
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Update notices
- erratum (2017-10-02)
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- Nature Communications (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research (submittedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation (1506345)
- Institut de Ciències Fotòniques
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (W911NF-14-1-0383, W911NF-14-1-, W31P4Q1310017)
- Army Research Office (W911NF-14-1, W911NF-15-1-, W911NF-15-1- 0336, W911NF, W911NF-14-1-0383, W911NF-15)
- Aviation and Missile Research, Development, and Engineering Center (W31P4Q1310017)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Radiation › Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Radiation › X-ray Spectroscopy and Fluorescence Analysis
- Keywords
- attosecond X-ray pulses, carbon K-edge, soft x-ray spectroscopy, high harmonic generation, water window, electron dynamics, diamond, biological specimen
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