Attosecond Metrology

Author

Corkum, Paul

Author_Institution

Nat. Res. Council of Canada, Ottawa

fYear

2007

fDate

6-11 May 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

Attosecond metrology also exploits the sub-cycle time-dependent field of the laser to provide the shear needed to measure attosecond optical or electron pulses. Always the shear is applied to electrons because they respond easily to electric fields. Attosecond pulses can be measured in the nonlinear medium while they are being generated or they can be measured more conventionally, in a separate nonlinear medium. In this case, attosecond optical pulses transfer their amplitude and phase information to photoelectrons which are measured in their place. As in femtosecond science, measuring an ultrashort pulse and measuring an ultrafast dynamics excited by an attosecond pulse is similar. This paper describe the methods of attosecond metrology.

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; measurement by laser beam; amplitude information; attosecond metrology; attosecond optical pulses; femtosecond science; phase information; Councils; Electrons; Extraterrestrial measurements; Laser theory; Metrology; Optical interferometry; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Pulse measurements; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007. CLEO 2007. Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-834-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2007.4452660

Filename

4452660