{"id":236024,"date":"2026-04-27T22:29:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T03:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/neural-network-speeds-tuning-of-attosecond-light-pulses-for-physics-experiments"},"modified":"2026-04-27T22:29:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T03:29:55","slug":"neural-network-speeds-tuning-of-attosecond-light-pulses-for-physics-experiments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/neural-network-speeds-tuning-of-attosecond-light-pulses-for-physics-experiments","title":{"rendered":"Neural network speeds tuning of attosecond light pulses for physics experiments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neural-network-speeds-tuning-of-attosecond-light-pulses-for-physics-experiments.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers from Skoltech and the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics have developed an approach that helps optimize the parameters of a laser-plasma source of attosecond pulses\u2014ultrashort flashes of light used in physics experiments. Instead of relying on a large number of time-consuming calculations, the team trained a neural network to quickly identify promising settings and thereby speed up the optimization of the sophisticated laboratory equipment.<\/p>\n<p>The results were <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.cnsns.2026.109994\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-01-ultrafast-electron-dynamics-short-pulses.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">Attosecond pulse sources<\/a> are used as research tools. They are applied in ultrafast spectroscopy, studies of magnetic materials, chiral molecules, and electron dynamics in matter. The goal of this work is to make it faster to tune a light source with the required properties for such experiments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from Skoltech and the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics have developed an approach that helps optimize the parameters of a laser-plasma source of attosecond pulses\u2014ultrashort flashes of light used in physics experiments. Instead of relying on a large number of time-consuming calculations, the team trained a neural network to quickly identify promising [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}