title: Controlling the phase evolution of few-cycle light pulses
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.
authors.affiliation: Institut fur Photonik, Technische Universitat Wien, Gusshausstrasse 27, A-1040 Wien, Austria and Institute of Automation and Electrometry, SB RAS, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia.
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Apolonski
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Poppe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Tempea
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Spielmann
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Udem
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Holzwarth
authors.initials: TW
authors.lastname: Hansch
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Krausz