Dispersion-controlled hollow core fiber for phase matched harmonic generation

Optics Express

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 360-365

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; LASER PULSES; LIGHT PROPAGATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; X RAY LASERS; X RAYS;

HIGH HARMONIC GENERATION (HHG); MULTIHARMONIC GENERATION; PULSE PROPAGATION;

HARMONIC GENERATION;

EID: 0002001002     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.3.000360     Document Type: Article

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