Role of the Carrier-Envelope Offset Phase of Few-Cycle Pulses in Nonperturbative Resonant Nonlinear Optics

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 12, 2002, Pages

  Mucke O D ^a   Tritschler, T ^a   Wegener, M ^a   Morgner, U ^a   Kartner F X ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NONLINEAR DISTORTION; PERMITTIVITY; PHOTONS; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS;

CARRIER-ENVELOPE OFFSET (CEO) PHASE;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 0037120418     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.127401     Document Type: Article

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