Quasi-phase matching of high-harmonics and attosecond pulses in modulated waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 362-367

  Christov, Ivan P ^a   Kapteyn, Henry C ^a   Murnane, Margaret M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; HARMONIC GENERATION; IONIZATION; LASER PULSES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; X RAY ANALYSIS;

HARMONIC EMISSION; HIGH ENERGY PHOTONS; MULTIHARMONIC GENERATION; WAVELENGTH;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0000638715     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.7.000362     Document Type: Article

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