All-optical sampling of few-cycle infrared pulses using tunneling in a solid

Yangyang Liu; Shima Gholam-Mirzaei; John E. Beetar; Jonathan Nesper; Ahmed Yousif; M. Nrisimhamurty; Michael Chini

doi:10.1364/PRJ.420916

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