COLTRIMS - Attoclock
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. The pictures show the COLTRIMS apparatus, an UHV chamber equipped with two time- and position sensitive detectors for detecting negatively and positively charged particles, installed at the end of a 40 cm long spectrometer. The charged fragments created in the interaction region are driven towards the detector by homogeneous electric and magnetic fields (the latter generated by the Helmoltz coils visible in the picture on the left/top) aligned along the spectrometer axis. | The COLTRIMS (COLd Target Recoil Ion Momentum Spectroscopy) is a momentum space imaging technique that allows the coincidence measurement of 3D momentum vectors of fragments originating from atomic and molecular breakup processes. The Attoclock employs elliptically polarized femtosecond laser pulses to ionize atomic or molecular targets. From the magnitude and the direction of the momentum vector of the ion or electron, timing information can be extracted with attosecond temporal resolution and accuracy. The attoCOLTRIMS front-end provides isolated attosecond pulses and attosecond pulse trains in the XUV for attosecond pump-probe spectroscopy with coincidence detection. |