Freezing the carrier-envelope phase of few-cycle light pulses about a focus

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 19424-19434

  Porras, Miguel A ^a   Dombi, Péter ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b WIGNER RESEARCH CENTRE FOR PHYSICS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOCUSING; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

CARRIER-ENVELOPE PHASE; DISPERSIVE MEDIA; DISPERSIVE MEDIUM; DISPERSIVE PROPAGATION; DISPERSIVE SLAB; FOCAL REGIONS; FOCUSING SYSTEM; PHASE SENSITIVE;

DISPERSION (WAVES);

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER; OSCILLOMETRY; REFRACTOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TELECOMMUNICATION;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INTERFEROMETRY; LASERS; OSCILLOMETRY; REFRACTOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 70749123824     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.019424     Document Type: Article

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