Publication Date:
2004-08-31
Description:
The electromagnetic field of visible light performs approximately 10(15) oscillations per second. Although many instruments are sensitive to the amplitude and frequency (or wavelength) of these oscillations, they cannot access the light field itself. We directly observed how the field built up and disappeared in a short, few-cycle pulse of visible laser light by probing the variation of the field strength with a 250-attosecond electron burst. Our apparatus allows complete characterization of few-cycle waves of visible, ultraviolet, and/or infrared light, thereby providing the possibility for controlled and reproducible synthesis of ultrabroadband light waveforms.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Goulielmakis, E -- Uiberacker, M -- Kienberger, R -- Baltuska, A -- Yakovlev, V -- Scrinzi, A -- Westerwalbesloh, Th -- Kleineberg, U -- Heinzmann, U -- Drescher, M -- Krausz, F -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2004 Aug 27;305(5688):1267-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Institut fur Photonik, Technische Universitat Wien, Gusshausstrasse 27, A-1040 Wien, Austria.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15333834" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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