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Journal of Modern Optics

Strong field physics with long wavelength lasers

K. D. Schultz, Cosmin I. Blaga, Razvan Chirla, P. Colosimo, James Patrick Cryan, Anne Marie March, C. Roedig, Emily F. Sistrunk, J. Tate, Jonathan A. Wheeler, Pierre Agostini, Louis F. DiMauro

Published May 10, 2007• 24 citations
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Abstract

The generation of short, intense, mid-infrared laser pulses allows for the exploration of atom–laser interactions deep in the tunnelling regime as well as providing the ability to explore scaled interactions. In this paper we present recent experimental and theoretical results for this largely unexplored parameter space.
DOI
10.1080/09500340601135458

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