Attosecond recorder of the polarization state of light

Álvaro Jiménez-Galán; Gopal Dixit; Serguei Patchkovskii; Olga Smirnova; Felipe Morales; Misha Ivanov

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-03167-2

Nature Communications (Feb 2018)

Attosecond recorder of the polarization state of light

Álvaro Jiménez-Galán,
Gopal Dixit,
Serguei Patchkovskii,
Olga Smirnova,
Felipe Morales,
Misha Ivanov

Affiliations

Álvaro Jiménez-Galán: Max-Born-Institute
Gopal Dixit: Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Serguei Patchkovskii: Max-Born-Institute
Olga Smirnova: Max-Born-Institute
Felipe Morales: Max-Born-Institute
Misha Ivanov: Max-Born-Institute

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03167-2
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Attosecond pulses are useful in exploring processes involving ultrafast electron motion in atomic and molecular systems. Here the authors discuss a method to characterize the complex time-varying polarization state of broadband attosecond pulses by using asymmetry in photoelectron spectra.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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