Carrier-envelope phase-sensitive inversion in two-level systems

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2065-2075

  Jirauschek, Christian ^a   Duan, Lingze ^a   Mücke, Oliver D ^a   Kärtner, Franz X ^a   Wegener, Martin ^b   Morgner, Uwe ^c  

^a Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Research Laboratory of Electronics Massachusetts Institute of Technology ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; VECTORS;

CARRIER ENVELOPE PHASE SENSITIVE INVERSION; PHASE SENSITIVITY; TWO LEVEL SYSTEMS;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 28244476400     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.22.002065     Document Type: Article

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