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Attosecond streaking enables the measurement of quantum phase

Atomic Physics 2015-05-19 v2 Optics

Abstract

Attosecond streaking, as a measurement technique, was originally conceived as a means to characterize attosecond light pulses, which is a good approximation if the relevant transition matrix elements are approximately constant within the bandwidth of the light pulse. Our analysis of attosecond streaking measurements on systems with complex response to the photoionizing pulse establishes a relation between the momentum-space wave function of the outgoing electron and the result of conventional retrieval algorithms. This finding enables the measurement of the quantum phase associated with bound-continuum transition matrix elements.

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@article{arxiv.1006.1827,
  title  = {Attosecond streaking enables the measurement of quantum phase},
  author = {Vladislav S. Yakovlev and Justin Gagnon and Nicholas Karpowicz and Ferenc Krausz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1006.1827},
  year   = {2015}
}

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similar to the version accepted for publication in PRL