Revealing local field structure of focused ultrashort pulses. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We utilize the interaction of tightly focused ultrashort pulses with transparent media to imprint their local polarization in the focal region. In particular, we demonstrate that this technique allows for a subwavelength resolution diagnostic of complex polarization states including the presence of the longitudinal component of the electric field. Moreover, we demonstrate the first ever material ablation with the longitudinal electric field of femtosecond pulses.

published proceedings

  • Phys Rev Lett

author list (cited authors)

  • Hnatovsky, C., Shvedov, V., Krolikowski, W., & Rode, A.

citation count

  • 212

complete list of authors

  • Hnatovsky, Cyril||Shvedov, Vladlen||Krolikowski, Wieslaw||Rode, Andrei

publication date

  • March 2011