17-21 November 2025
Africa/Johannesburg timezone
Big Science and Big Goals for Africa

The World of Atoms at the Attosecond Time Scale

17 Nov 2025, 12:15
1h 15m

Speaker

Prof. Anne L'Huillier (Lund University)

Description

When an intense laser interacts with a gas of atoms, high-order harmonics are generated. In the time domain, this radiation forms a train of extremely short light pulses, of the order of 100 attoseconds. Attosecond pulses allow the study of the dynamics of electrons in atoms and molecules, using pump-probe techniques. This presentation will highlight some of the key steps of the field of attosecond science.

Primary author

Prof. Anne L'Huillier (Lund University)

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