Ultrasmall bullets of light-focusing few-cycle light pulses to the diffraction limit

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 14451-14463

  Piglosiewicz, B ^a   Sadiq, D ^a   Mascheck, M ^a   Schmidt, S ^a   Silies, M ^a   Vasa, P ^a   Lienau, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; NONLINEAR OPTICS;

AUTOCORRELATORS; BEAM DIAMETERS; DIFFRACTION LIMITED; DIFFRACTION LIMITS; FEW-CYCLE; FEW-CYCLE LASER PULSE; FOCAL VOLUME; LIGHT PULSE; MICROSCOPE OBJECTIVE; OPTICAL NONLINEARITY; PULSE PROFILE; TI:SAPPHIRE OSCILLATORS; ULTRA-SMALL;

FOCUSING;

EID: 79960499263     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.014451     Document Type: Article

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