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. 2002 Oct 24;419(6909):803-7.
doi: 10.1038/nature01143.

Time-resolved atomic inner-shell spectroscopy

M Drescher  1 , M Hentschel, R Kienberger, M Uiberacker, V Yakovlev, A Scrinzi, Th Westerwalbesloh, U Kleineberg, U Heinzmann, F Krausz
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Time-resolved atomic inner-shell spectroscopy

M Drescher et al. Nature. .

Abstract

The characteristic time constants of the relaxation dynamics of core-excited atoms have hitherto been inferred from the linewidths of electronic transitions measured by continuous-wave extreme ultraviolet or X-ray spectroscopy. Here we demonstrate that a laser-based sampling system, consisting of a few-femtosecond visible light pulse and a synchronized sub-femtosecond soft X-ray pulse, allows us to trace these dynamics directly in the time domain with attosecond resolution. We have measured a lifetime of 7.9(-0.9)(+1.0) fs of M-shell vacancies of krypton in such a pump-probe experiment.

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  • Atomic photography.
    DiMauro LF. DiMauro LF. Nature. 2002 Oct 24;419(6909):789-90. doi: 10.1038/419789a. Nature. 2002. PMID: 12397335 No abstract available.

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