Breakdown of the area theorem: Carrier-wave rabi flopping of femtosecond optical pulses

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 81, Issue 16, 1998, Pages 3363-3366

  Hughes, S ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0000571212     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.3363     Document Type: Article

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