
Nonlinear optical process in the XUV region is of paramount importance
not only in the field of quantum electronic but also in ultrafast optics.
From the viewpoint of quantum electronics, new features of the interaction
between intense XUV photons and matters are expected to be revealed through
observation of those nonlinear phenomena. On the other hand, those nonlinear
processes in the XUV region is indispensable for progress of attosecond
science including attosecond atomic/molecular physics and chemistry, because
it is very useful for investigating ultrafast phenomena directly in attosecond
time scale. Using high harmonic generation by intense femtosecond laser
technology, we are pursuing extreme optical science including XUV nonlinear
optics and attosecond physics/chemistry.

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Generation and measurement of attosecond pulses |
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Attosecond dynamics in atoms and molecules |
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XUV nonlinear optics |
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Ultrafast imaging by intense soft x-ray radiation |
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