"Few-cycle intense mid-IR waveforms and novel electron dynamics: Strong field physics and extreme nonlinear optics in the mid-IR."

"Liberation of an electron is the first step of the recollision model describing high order harmonic generation and attosecond pulse generation. Orbital tomography and electron self-diffraction imaging furthermore intimately rely on a firm grasp of electron dynamics in the Coulomb field of their parent molecular ion. These strong field effects all rely on tunneling dynamics which we study with true mid-IR waveforms. I will show unexpected electron dynamics, and first 3D momentum measurements, when probed, without the ubiquitous ambiguities at the Ti:Sa range, in the non-perturbative tunneling regime. The availability of intense ultrashort pulses at 3100 nm permits exploitation of nonlinear pulse propagation in the anomalous dispersion regime leading to interesting X-wave dynamics, unprecedentedly large supercontinua and stable pulse self-compression in bulk media."