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Bright Isolated Attosecond Soft X-Ray Pulses

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Ultrafast Phenomena XIX

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By driving the high harmonic generation process with multi-cycle mid-infrared laser pulses, we demonstrate bright isolated, attosecond soft X-ray pulses for the first time.

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Acknowledgement

The authors acknowledge support from the Department of Energy AMOs, by the Taiwan National Science Council and by the US National Science Foundation.

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  1. JILA and Department of Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, 80309-0440, USA

    M.-C. Chen, C. Mancuso, C. Hernández-García, F. Dollar, B. Galloway, D. Popmintchev, A. Jaron-Becker, A. Becker, M. M. Murnane, H. C. Kapteyn & T. Popmintchev

  2. Institute of Photonics Technologies, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, 30013, Taiwan

    M.-C. Chen & P.-C. Huang

  3. Grupo de Investigación en Óptica Extrema, Universidad de Salamanca, 37008, Salamanca, Spain

    C. Hernández-García & L. Plaja

  4. Kapteyn-Murnane Labs Inc, Boulder, CO, 80301, USA

    B. Langdon & A. Auger

  5. University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 19716, USA

    B.C. Walker

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Correspondence to M.-C. Chen .

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  1. Department of Chemistry, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

    Kaoru Yamanouchi

  2. JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA

    Steven Cundiff

  3. Department of Chemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, München, Germany

    Regina de Vivie-Riedle

  4. Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

    Makoto Kuwata-Gonokami

  5. Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA

    Louis DiMauro

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Chen, MC. et al. (2015). Bright Isolated Attosecond Soft X-Ray Pulses. In: Yamanouchi, K., Cundiff, S., de Vivie-Riedle, R., Kuwata-Gonokami, M., DiMauro, L. (eds) Ultrafast Phenomena XIX. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 162. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13242-6_23

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