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NATURE PHYSICS
Volume 2, Issue 11, Pages 781-786Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nphys434
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Generating attosecond pulses has required a radically different approach from previous ultrafast optical methods. The technology of attosecond measurement, however, is built on established methods of characterizing femtosecond pulses: the pulse is measured after it has left the region where it was produced. We offer a completely different approach: in situ measurement. That is, we integrate attosecond-pulse production and measurement in a manner that can be applied to many high-order nonlinear interactions. To demonstrate this approach, we combine a low-intensity (<10(-3)) second-harmonic beam with the fundamental beam, to gently perturb the production process without significantly modifying it. The attosecond-pulse duration is read from the modulation of the even-harmonic signal as a function of the two-field delay. Increasing the second-harmonic intensity slightly (<10(-2)), we extend measurement to control. We demonstrate control by manipulating the high-harmonic spectrum with high efficiency.
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