Dependence of dynamic Lorentz frequency shift on carrier-envelope phase and including local field effects

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 21754-21761

  Zhang, Chaojin ^a,b   Yang, Weifeng ^a   Song, Xiaohong ^a   Xu, Zhizhan ^a  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER PULSES;

CARRIER-ENVELOPE PHASE; DENSE MEDIUM; FEW-CYCLE LASER PULSE; FREQUENCY SHIFT; LOCAL-FIELD EFFECTS; LORENTZ;

FREQUENCY SHIFT KEYING;

EID: 72449204123     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.021754     Document Type: Article

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