Ultrafast optical science has experienced major breakthroughs in the last years, driven by two main accomplishments: (i) generation of light pulses with duration of just a few cycles of the optical carrier wave; (ii) control of the carrier-envelope phase (CEP) of light pulses, enabling the production of optical waveforms with reproducible electric field. The generation of extremely short light pulses with controlled CEP allows exploring new frontiers of light-matter interaction, ...