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SYLA: Symposium 50 Years of Lasers

SYLA 1: 50 Years of Lasers I

SYLA 1.4: Invited Talk

Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 15:30–16:00, E 415

Short, Ultra Short, Atto Short — •Dietrich von der Linde — Universität Duisburg-Essen

One of the major lines of development that started off with the invention of the laser was the search for ever shorter and more intense laser pulses. Due to a succession of new ideas and techniques the attainable laser pulse duration has dropped in several steps all the way to femtoseconds (10-15 s) and is entering today the attosecond (10-18 s) time regime. The spectacular progress in time resolution and also in peak intensity has provided new research tools and opened up exciting new applications in science and technology.