High-energy pulse synthesis with sub-cycle waveform control for strong-field physics

Nature Photonics

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 475-479

  Huang, Shu Wei ^a   Cirmi, Giovanni ^a   Moses, Jeffrey ^a   Hong, Kyung Han ^a   Bhardwaj, Siddharth ^a   Birge, Jonathan R ^a   Chen, Li Jin ^a   Li, Enbang ^b   Eggleton, Benjamin J ^b   Cerullo, Giulio ^c   Kärtner, Franz X ^a,d  

^a Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

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EID: 79960960783     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2011.140     Document Type: Article

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