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Recent developments of laser technology led to the generation of laser pulses with a duration (measured at full-width half maximum) of less than 5fs [1]. At a typical wavelength of 750nm, an optical cycle has a duration of 2.5fs; therefore, the pulses consist of only very few optical cycles (few-cycle pulses). Since the pulse envelope varies almost as fast as the electromagnetic field itself, the shape of the laser’s field will significantly depend on the phase of the carrier frequency with respect to the envelope, the so-called absolute phase.
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Lindner, F. et al. (2004). Measurement of the Absolute Phase of few-Cycle Laser Pulses. In: Krausz, F., Korn, G., Corkum, P., Walmsley, I.A. (eds) Ultrafast Optics IV. Springer Series in OPTICAL SCIENCES, vol 95. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34756-1_26
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