Carrier-envelope phase shift of few-cycle pulses along the focus of lenses and mirrors beyond the nonreshaping pulse approximation: The effect of pulse chirp

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3271-3276

  Porras, Miguel A ^a   Major, Balazs ^b   Horvath, Zoltan L ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER-ENVELOPE PHASE; EFFECT OF PULSE; FEW-CYCLE PULSE; FOCAL REGIONS; PHASE-SENSITIVE; PULSE RESHAPING;

LASER PULSES;

LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS;

EID: 84870692331     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.29.003271     Document Type: Article

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