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Science 1 June 2001:
Vol. 292. no. 5522, pp. 1689 - 1692
DOI: 10.1126/science.1059413
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Observation of a Train of Attosecond Pulses from High Harmonic Generation

P. M. Paul,1 E. S. Toma,2 P. Breger,1 G. Mullot,3 F. Augé,3 Ph. Balcou,3 H. G. Muller,2* P. Agostini1

In principle, the temporal beating of superposed high harmonics obtained by focusing a femtosecond laser pulse in a gas jet can produce a train of very short intensity spikes, depending on the relative phases of the harmonics. We present a method to measure such phases through two-photon, two-color photoionization. We found that the harmonics are locked in phase and form a train of 250-attosecond pulses in the time domain. Harmonic generation may be a promising source for attosecond time-resolved measurements.

1 Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique DRECAM/SPAM, Centre d'Etudes de Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
2 FOM-Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Kruislaan 407, 1098 SJ, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
3 Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquée, École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées (ENSTA)-Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS UMR 7639, 91761 Palaiseau Cedex, France.
*   To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: muller{at}amolf.nl

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