Submitted by hamorris on Fri, 01/29/2010 - 11:27am.
Mar 31 2010 - 3:00pm
Mar 31 2010 - 4:00pm
Speaker:
Dr. Paul Corkum, Joint Laboratory for Attosecond Science, University of Ottawa and the National Research Council of Canda
Location:
ST 135
During the past six years the minimum duration of optical (XUV) pulses has fallen from 5 femtoseconds (5x10-15 sec) to about 100 attoseconds (~10-16 sec)—less than the classical period of a ground-state electron in a hydrogen atom.
