Highu-energy optical waveform synthesis

There is a growing number of strong-field processes that greatly benefit from the availability of single-cycle to sub-cycle optical pulses, especially the generation of intense isolated attosecond XUV pulses [1], relativistic laser-plasma interactions and laser-driven electron acceleration [2], in-vacuum acceleration [3], launching valence-electron wavepacket dynamics in atoms and molecules [4], and control of sub-cycle electron transport in solids [5], which all can be summarized as examples of “Waveform Nonlinear Optics”.