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Optical Technologies for Extreme-Ultraviolet and Soft X-ray Coherent Sources

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In the last decade dramatic progress has been achieved in the field of attosecond technology, due to breakthroughs in ultrafast laser science and to the introduction of novel experimental techniques for the characterization and application of extreme ultraviolet attosecond pulses, produced by high-order harmonic generation in noble gases. This chapter will review recent experimental progress in the field of attosecond sources.

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We acknowledge financial support from the European Research Council under the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013)/ERC grant agreement n. 227355—ELYCHE, from the Italian Ministry of Research (FIRB-IDEAS RBID08CRXK) and from MC-RTN ATTOFEL (FP7-238362).

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Calegari, F., Sansone, G., Nisoli, M. (2015). Overview on Attosecond Sources. In: Canova, F., Poletto, L. (eds) Optical Technologies for Extreme-Ultraviolet and Soft X-ray Coherent Sources. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 197. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47443-3_3

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