Streaking ahead: in this illustration of femtosecond streaking the detection of electron currents induced in ambient air plasma by a pair of cross-polarized laser pulses is used to sample the electric ...

(Nanowerk News) Timing photoionization is essential for our understanding of how light and matter interact on the most fundamental level. The advent of attosecond metrologies allows us to access the ...

(Nanowerk News) X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) have delivered intense, ultrashort X-ray pulses in the femtosecond range for over a decade. A femtosecond is equivalent to a millionth of a billionth ...

Light-induced ultrafast electron dynamics significantly impacts the fundamental processes in nature, such as molecular bond breaking and formation, chemical reactions, and biological metabolism.

An international consortium of scientists, initiated by Reinhard Kienberger, Professor of Laser and X-ray Physics at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), several years ago, has made significant ...