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What is an "attosecond pulse", and what can you use it for?

Emilio Pisanty · 2023
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The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics was announced today, and it was awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier, for “experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter”. The documents released by the Nobel Foundation along with the announcement (the popular science background and the more detailed scientific background do a good job of explaining the basics, but: why are attosecond pulses exciting, and what can you do with them that you cannot do in any other way?
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