Pulse Compression News Today

In the past 50 years, the pursuit of shorter laser pulses has been the driving force in advancing ultrafast science, with laser pulse compression techniques now enabling the generation of single-digit femtoseconds and even attosecond pulse durations.

A research team at National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) in Taiwan has captured an instant moment in the nanoworld by producing attosecond extreme ultraviolet pulses. This light source can work as a nano camera to capture images of 5-nanometer-scale objects that move at an extremely high speed, such as an electron. This technology is expected to advance the design of next-generation transistors and memory chips with significantly increased speed for computers and communications.