The ability to distinguish the high-harmonic emission generated by individual half-cycles of a driving laser leads to a simpler approach to characterizing the laser pulse and isolating a single attosecond pulse.
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Cundiff, S. Better by half. Nature Phys 3, 16–18 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys493
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