Generation of coherent, femtosecond, X-ray pulses in the "water window"

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 266-269

  Chang, Zenghu ^b   Rundquist, Andy ^b   Wang, Haiwen ^b   Christov, Ivan ^b,c   Murnane, Margaret M ^a,b   Kapteyn, Henry C ^b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Attosecond pulse; High order harmonics; Water window X ray

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; LASER PULSES; OPTICS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; THEORY; X RAYS;

HIGH-ORDER HARMONICS;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 0032021771     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.686731     Document Type: Article

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