Modeling the Interaction of a Single-Cycle Laser Pulse With a Bound Electron Without Ionization

Ultrashort light pulse research has led to the creation of laser systems generating pulses only a few cycles in duration (Couairon et al., 2006). Now that these ultrashort few-cycle EM pulses exist experimentally, the need for mathematical models to describe these short pulse interactions with matter becomes very important (Porras, 1999). Questions arise on what i