Sub-1.5-cycle pulses from a single filament

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 24049-24058

  Steingrube, Daniel S ^a,b   Kretschmar, Martin ^a   Hoff, Dominik ^d   Schulz, Emilia ^a,b   Binhammer, Thomas ^c   Hansinger, Peter ^d   Paulus, Gerhard G ^d   Morgner, Uwe ^a,b   Kovačev, Milutin ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^b CENTRE FOR QUANTUM ENGINEERING AND SPACE TIME RESEARCH QUEST   (Germany)

^c Laser Quantum GmbH   (Germany)

^d FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS;

ABOVE-THRESHOLD IONIZATION; CARRIER-ENVELOPE PHASE; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; FEMTOSECOND FILAMENTS; FEW-CYCLE PULSE; FS PULSE; GAS CELL; NONLINEAR EVOLUTIONS; PROPAGATION LENGTHS; PULSE DURATIONS; PULSE SPLITTING; SINGLE FILAMENTS; TEMPORAL DYNAMICS;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; LASER; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOMETRY;

EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY;

EID: 84867320669     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.024049     Document Type: Article

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