Intense ultrashort light pulses comprising merely a few wave cycles became routinely
available by the turn of the millennium. The technologies underlying their production and …

Nobel Lecture: Passion for precision* Page 1 Nobel Lecture: Passion for precision*
Theodor W. Hänsch† Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany and …

Recently two emerging areas of research, attosecond and nanoscale physics, have started
to come together. Attosecond physics deals with phenomena occurring when ultrashort laser …

Intense laser-matter interactions are at the center of interest in research and technology
since the development of high-power lasers. They have been widely used for fundamental …

The theoretical description and the experimental methods and results for above-threshold
ionization (ATI) by few-cycle pulses are reviewed. A pulse is referred to as a few-cycle pulse …

This book's coverage builds from basic underlying theory to more complex ideas related to
attosecond optics. It shows how the generation of attosecond optical pulses requires …

We demonstrated how the subcycle evolution of the electric field of light can be used to
control the motion of bound electrons. Results are presented for the dissociative ionization of …

The electromagnetic field of visible light performs∼ 1015 oscillations per second. Although
many instruments are sensitive to the amplitude and frequency (or wavelength) of these …

Ultrashort measurement-time resolution is traditionally obtained in pump–probe
experiments, for which two ultrashort light pulses are required; the time resolution is then …

Although the electrical integration of chemically synthesized nanowires has been achieved
with lithography, optical integration, which promises high speeds and greater device …