Snapshots of Electrons in Motion
Optics & Photonics Focus
Volume 10 Story 7 - 30/9/2010

The eye of the camera

The look and working principle of an ultrafast apparatus differ radically from those of a conventional camera: krypton atoms are placed inside a vacuum chamber where they are ionized with a first laser pulse and subsequently probed by a second, ultra-short laser pulse. Picture: Eleftherios Goulielmakis, MPQ.
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The eye of the camera. The look and working principle of an ultrafast apparatus differ radically from those of a conventional camera: krypton atoms are placed inside a vacuum chamber where they are ionized with a first laser pulse and subsequently probed by a second, ultra-short laser pulse.