Toward TW-Peak-Power Single-Cycle IR Fields for Attosecond Physics and High-Field Science

Optical Parametric Chirped-Pulse Amplification (OPCPA) (Dubietis et al., 1992, 2006) has attracted a lot of attention as a promising route toward intensity scaling of few-cycle laser pulses. Intense carrier-envelope phase (CEP)-stable few-cycle laser pulses have numerous intriguing applications in attosecond and high-field science (for a recent review, see Krausz & Ivanov, 2009) including the production of attosecond XUV/soft-X-ray pulses by high-harmonic generation (HHG) (Hentschel et al., 2001; Kienberger et al., 2004; Sansone et al., 2006), tomographic imaging of molecular orbitals (Itatani et al., 2004), and laser-induced electron diffraction (Meckel et al., 2008). A major challenge for using HHG in studies of time-resolved tomography of molecular dissociative states is the low ionization potential

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