Abstract
Compression of femtosecond pulses to a few optical-cycles duration by coupling with an electron plasma in solids is shown. Nonlinear dissipation induced by multiphoton-absorption, and fast temporal modulations induced shock-terms can, however, maintain self-guided propagation.
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