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Comment on Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Agostini, Krausz, and L’Huillier

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So, and I'm feeling a bit stupid here, not visible light? Because the pulse must be a complete wave, right? It goes from not being there, to being there, to not being there. And "a few dozen attoseconds" is very much shorter than the wave period of visible light. These flashes are low end x-rays?

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