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Thursday, May 17, 2012

An attosecond laser and the birth of an electron

Atomic processes take place on extremely short time scales. Measurements at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna) can now visualize these processes.

Electron pairs (green) are produced in a laser field (red) by ionization of atoms (blue) with light oscillations synchronized on an attosecond time scale. Credit: Technische Universität Wien