Phase-Controlled Amplification of Few-Cycle Laser Pulses

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 972-989

  Baltuška, Andrius ^a   Uiberacker, Matthias ^a   Goulielmakis, Eleftherios ^a   Kienberger, Reinhard ^a   Yakovlev, Vladislav S ^a   Udem, Thomas ^b   Hänsch, Theodor W ^b   Krausz, Ferenc ^a,b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Frequency conversion; Nonlinear optics; Nonlinear wave propagation; Optical pulse measurements; Ultrafast optics

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FEEDBACK; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; PHASE CONTROL; PHASE LOCKED LOOPS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WAVE PROPAGATION; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ATTOSECOND SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL PULSE MEASUREMENTS; OPTICAL-FIELD IONIZATION; ULTRAFAST OPTICS; ULTRARELATIVISTIC ENERGIES;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 0346276779     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2003.819107     Document Type: Article

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