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Attosecond movies of nano-optical fields

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A transmission electron microscopy technique enables movies of optical near-fields to be recorded with a temporal resolution faster than the oscillation of optical electric fields.

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Fig. 1: Transmission electron microscopy with sub-optical-cycle resolution.

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Morimoto, Y. Attosecond movies of nano-optical fields. Nat. Photon. 17, 736–737 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-023-01271-4

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