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 …

Recent progress in high power ultrafast short-wave and mid-wave infrared lasers has
enabled gas-phase high harmonic generation (HHG) in the water window and beyond, as …

The generation of extremely short isolated attosecond pulses requires both a broad spectral
bandwidth and control of the spectral phase. Rapid progress has been made in both …

The accurate measurement of time lies at the heart of experimental science, and is relevant
to everyday life. Extending chronoscopy to ever shorter timescales has been the key to …

Since high-order harmonic generation (HHG) from atoms depends sensitively on the
polarization of the driving laser field, the polarization gating (PG) technique was developed …

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 …

Extreme ultraviolet and X-ray free-electron lasers (FELs) produce short-wavelength pulses
with high intensity, ultrashort duration, well-defined polarization and transverse coherence …

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 …

The development of attosecond technology is one of the most significant achievements in
the field of ultrafast optics over the past decade. Since the first experimental demonstration …

We demonstrated a novel optical switch to control the high-order harmonic generation
process so that single attosecond pulses can be generated with multiple-cycle pulses. The …