Carrier-envelope phase dependence of few-cycle ultrashort laser pulse propagation in a polar molecule medium

Phys Rev Lett. 2007 Sep 28;99(13):133602. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.133602. Epub 2007 Sep 27.

Abstract

We theoretically investigate carrier-envelope phase dependence of few-cycle ultrashort laser pulse propagation in a polar molecule medium. Our results show that a soliton pulse can be generated during the two-photon resonant propagation of few-cycle pulse in the polar molecule medium. Moreover, the main features of the soliton pulse, such as pulse duration and intensity, depend crucially on the carrier-envelope phase of the incident pulse, which could be utilized to determine the carrier-envelope phase of a few-cycle ultrashort laser pulse from a mode-locked oscillator.