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An intense laser system is a necessary prerequisite for experimental investigation of super-intense laser/atom physics. The highest laser intensities are realized by producing a large amount of laser energy in a short pulse. The amount of energy which can be produced by a laser system is limited by its physical size. However, the length of the laser pulse has only one physical constraint: the duration of the pulse cannot be significantly shorter than a single “optical-cycle”. This limit has yet to be realized for visible radiation, where the shortest pulses used in intense laser systems are at least tens of cycles long.
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Jones, R.R., You, D., Bucksbaum, P.H. (1993). Atomic Physics with Intense, Subpicosecond Half-Cycle Pulses. In: Piraux, B., L’Huillier, A., Rzążewski, K. (eds) Super-Intense Laser-Atom Physics. NATO ASI Series, vol 316. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7963-2_25
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