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Applications of ultrafast wavefront rotation in highly nonlinear optics

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DOIResolve DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075/47/12/124004
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  1. National Research Council of Canada. Security and Disruptive Technologies
FormatText, Article
SubjectHarmonic generation; Light sources; Nonlinear optics; Ultrafast lasers; Wavefronts; Attosecond pulse; Experimental evidence; High harmonic generation; Nonlinear optical process; Spatio-temporal; Time resolved measurement; Time resolved studies; Ultrafast measurements; Ultrashort pulses
Abstract
This paper provides an overview of ultrafast wavefront rotation of femtosecond laser pulses and its various applications in highly nonlinear optics, focusing on processes that lead to the generation of high-order harmonics and attosecond pulses. In this context, wavefront rotation can be exploited in different ways, to obtain new light sources for time-resolved studies, called 'attosecond lighthouses', to perform time-resolved measurements of nonlinear optical processes, using 'photonic streaking', or to track changes in the carrier-envelope relative phase of femtosecond laser pulses. The basic principles are explained qualitatively from different points of view, the experimental evidence obtained so far is summarized, and the perspectives opened by these effects are discussed. © 2014 IOP Publishing Ltd.
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  • Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 47, no. 12, 124004 (2014).
LanguageEnglish
Peer reviewedYes
NPARC number21276242
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