High-order harmonic generation in plasmas

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1915-1924

  Gibbon, Paul ^a,b,c,d  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d Inst of Opt and Quant Electronics   (Germany)

Author keywords

Harmonic generation; Relativistic waves in plasmas

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; ELECTRON SCATTERING; INERT GASES; LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS; LASER PULSES; PHOTOIONIZATION;

COHERENT RADIATION; NONLINEAR SCATTERING; RELATIVISTIC WAVES;

HARMONIC GENERATION;

EID: 0031270379     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.641306     Document Type: Article

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