The Berthold Leibinger Zukunftspreis is an international award for "excellent research on the application or generation of laser light". Since 2006, it is biennially awarded by the German non-profit f
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Attosecond physics, also known as attophysics, or more generally attosecond science, is a branch of physics that deals with light–matter interaction phenomena wherein attosecond photon pulses are used
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High harmonic generation in krypton. This technology is one of the most used techniques to generate attosecond bursts of light.
Scheme of a strong IR field and a delayed attosecond XUV pulse interacting with a single electron in a single-level atom. The XUV can ionize the electron, which "jumps" in the continuum by direct ionization (blue path in the figure). The IR pulse, later, "streaks" up and down in energy the photo-electron. After the interaction, the electron has final energy which can be subsequently detected and measured (e.g. time-of-flight apparatus). The multi-photon ionization process (red path in the figure) is also possible, but, since it is relevant in different energetic region, it can be disregarded.
Simulation of a streaking trace in Neon. The attosecond pulse duration is 350 as, with central wavelength at the 33 harmonics of an 800 nm laser. The 800 nm pulse, which has the role of streaking up and down the photoelectron trace, has a duration of 7 fs with a peak intensity of 5 TW/cm2.