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Making light of a difficult phase
Apr 1, 2003
Physicists are always striving to gain control over matter at the quantum level, and ultrafast lasers are just about the best way of achieving this. By precisely controlling the intensity, wavelength and duration of extremely short pulses of light, we can manipulate electronic processes at the atomic level.
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