title: Carrier-envelope-offset phase control of ultrafast optical rectification in resonantly excited semiconductors.
abstract: Ultrashort pulse light-matter interactions in a semiconductor are investigated within the regime of resonant optical rectification. Using pulse envelope areas of around 1.5-3.5 pi, a single-shot dependence on carrier-envelope-offset phase (CEP) is demonstrated for 5 fs pulse durations. A characteristic phase map is predicted for several different frequency regimes using parameters for thin-film GaAs. We subsequently suggest a possible technique to extract the CEP, in both sign and amplitude, using a solid state detector.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6 Canada.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Van Vlack
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hughes