Nonlinear optics in the mid-infrared: new morning
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چکیده
Recent breakthroughs in ultrafast photonics in the mid-IR help understand complex interactions of high-intensity mid-IR field waveforms with matter, offer new approaches for xray generation, enable mid-IR laser filamentation in the atmosphere, facilitate lasing in filaments, give rise to unique regimes of lasermatter interactions, and reveal unexpected properties of materials in the mid-IR range.
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