National Research Council Canada Research Chair in Attosecond Photonics

测量时间是我们作为人类所做的最重要的事情之一。 我们的许多技术都是由速度驱动的。我们当前测量能力的极限是解决阿秒内发生的事件，即 10^-18 秒的短得难以想象的时间。阿秒是电子的自然时间尺度。加拿大国家研究委员会阿秒光子学研究主席已成功推进了生成、测量和应用这些脉冲的目标。 现在有机会将阿秒测量从气体扩展到固体，开发相干二维吸收光谱作为确定多电子分子中能量耦合的手段，并将成像质谱开发为健康研究的实用工具。

Measuring time is one of the most important things that we, as humans, do. Much of our technology is driven by speed. The very limits of our current measurement capability is to resolve events that take place in attoseconds, the unimaginably short time of 10^-18 seconds. Attoseconds is the natural time scale of electrons. The National Research Council - Canada Research Chair in Attosecond Photonics has successfully advanced the goal of generating, measuring and applying these pulses. Now there is an opportunity to extend attosecond measurement from gases to solids, to develop coherent 2-dimentional absorption spectroscopy as a means of determining the energy couplings in multi-electron molecules and to develop imaging mass spectrometry into a practical tool for health research.