A meter of the "absolute" phase of few-cycle laser pulses

Laser Physics

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 843-854

  Paulus, G G ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRON EMISSION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; IONIZATION; LASER MODE LOCKING; SPECTROMETERS;

ATTOSECOND SCIENCE; CARRIER FREQUENCY; FEMTOSECOND LASERS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 23844492499     PISSN: 1054660X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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35. For the measurement shown in Fig. 3, two times 40 million electrons were recorded. In principle this results in 10-mrad precision for the phase measurement. That measurement, however, took 15 minutes, during which the phase drifted certainly by more than 10 mrad. Clearly, the bandwidth must be improved to achieve this precision.