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Introduction of Wavefront Rotation

Caption: Here, wavefront rotation has been induced on the laser beam, leading to a spatial splitting of this attosecond pulse train into a collection of beamlets containing isolated attosecond pulses.

Credit: Fabien Quéré, the French Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique.

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