Abstract
The recent progress of the ultrafast laser technology enables to capture and control electrons dynamics, which is the key to understand how energy and charge are transported not only in atoms but also in more complex solid-state and molecular systems. This task calls for the development of novel measurement techniques with attosecond time resolution. The “attoclock” is a relatively simple method, which provides attosecond time resolution without the explicit need of attosecond pulses. In this chapter we review the details of this powerful experimental technique, which was employed in the recent years to investigate electron tunneling dynamics and to study the electron kinematics in strong field single and double ionization.
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All the work regarding the development of the attoclock technique was supported by the NCCR Quantum Photonics (NCCR QP) and NCC Molecular Ultrafast Science and Technology (NCCR MUST) programmes, research instruments of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), by the ETH Research Grant ETH-03 09-2 and by the SNSF R’Equip grant 206021_128551/1. A special acknowledgement goes to L. Gallmann for revising this manuscript. Collaborations with R. Dörner, A. Staudte, L. B. Madsen, H. G. Muller and M. Büttiker are gratefully acknowledged as well as stimulating discussions with L. Cocke.
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Cirelli, C., Pfeiffer, A.N., Smolarski, M., Eckle, P., Keller, U. (2013). The Attoclock: A Novel Ultrafast Measurement Technique with Attosecond Time Resolution. In: Plaja, L., Torres, R., Zaïr, A. (eds) Attosecond Physics. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 177. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37623-8_9
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