Ellipticity and pulse shape dependence of localised wavepackets

Optics Express

Volumn 4, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 496-511

  Patel, A ^a   Kylstra, N J ^a   Knight, P L ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; GROUND STATE; HYDROGEN; IONIZATION; LASER PULSES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

LASER PULSE ELLIPTICITY; LOCALIZED WAVEPACKETS; PULSE SHAPE;

MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES;

EID: 0000191479     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.4.000496     Document Type: Article

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