Attosecond science the art of making electron movies

Department of Physics, Politecnico di Milano Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, Milano ( Italy )

Abstract

After 22 years since the first experimental demonstration of attosecond pulses, the attosecond science has become a very active field of research, with prominent applications in atomic, molecular and solid-state physics. Experimental advances, in terms of new sources, devices and techniques, are still required, together with new theoretical tools and approaches, but attosecond physics has firmly established as a mature research field.