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Lasers

Lasers

Shifts in atomic understanding

01 Sep 1989
Taken from the September 1989 issue of Physics World.

Atoms subjected to intense, ultrashort pulses of laser radiation ionise in surprising and, as yet, not wholly understood ways, explain Pierre Agostini and Guillaume Petite

a femtosecond laser system
The femtosecond laser system. (Laboratoire d'Optique Applique, ENSTA)
Technology is set to yield, in the near future, unprecedentedly short (10–14 s) and intense (1017â

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Pierre Agostini and Guillaume Petite are in the Service de Physique des Atomes et des Surfaces, CEN Saclay, France
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