Determination of the carrier-envelope phase of few-cycle laser pulses with terahertz-emission spectroscopy

Nature Physics

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 327-331

  Kreß, Markus ^a   Löffler, Torsten ^a   Thomson, Mark D ^a   Dörner, Reinhard ^a   Gimpel, Hartmut ^b   Zrost, Karl ^b   Ergler, Thorsten ^b   Moshammer, Robert ^b   Morgner, Uwe ^b,c   Ullrich, Joachim ^b   Roskos, Hartmut G ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

^c INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY;

CARRIER-ENVELOPE PHASE; FEW-CYCLE LASER PULSE;

TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 33646857049     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys286     Document Type: Article

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