Controlling the Phase Evolution of Few-Cycle Light Pulses
- 24 July 2000
- journal article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 85 (4), 740-743
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.85.740
Abstract
Using a coherent nonlinear optical technique, slipping of the carrier through the envelope of 6-fs light wave packets emitted from a mode-locked-oscillator/pulse-compressor system has been measured, permitting the generation of intense, few-cycle light with precisely reproducible electric and magnetic fields. These pulses open the way to controlling the evolution of strong-field interactions on the time scale of the light oscillation cycle and are indispensable to reproducible attosecond x-ray pulse generation.Keywords
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