The high harmonics produced by focusing an intense femtosecond laser in a gas are theoretically shown to be locked in phase. The physics of this locking is discussed and a new method based on quantum interference in two-photon, two-color ionization allowing to retrieve the relative phase of harmonic pairs is described. The main result is that the 5 harmonics of orders 11-19 produced in argon generate a train of subfemtosecond pulses with a period of 1.35 fs and a duration of 250 attoseconds.
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