Time-resolved atomic inner-shell spectroscopy

M. Drescher (), M. Hentschel, R. Kienberger, M. Uiberacker, V. Yakovlev, A. Scrinzi, Th. Westerwalbesloh, U. Kleineberg, U. Heinzmann and F. Krausz ()
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M. Drescher: Institut für Photonik, Technische Universität Wien
M. Hentschel: Institut für Photonik, Technische Universität Wien
R. Kienberger: Institut für Photonik, Technische Universität Wien
M. Uiberacker: Institut für Photonik, Technische Universität Wien
V. Yakovlev: Institut für Photonik, Technische Universität Wien
A. Scrinzi: Institut für Photonik, Technische Universität Wien
Th. Westerwalbesloh: Fakultät für Physik, Universität Bielefeld
U. Kleineberg: Fakultät für Physik, Universität Bielefeld
U. Heinzmann: Fakultät für Physik, Universität Bielefeld
F. Krausz: Institut für Photonik, Technische Universität Wien

Nature, 2002, vol. 419, issue 6909, 803-807

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2002
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