Extreme nonlinear optics: Exposing matter to a few periods of light

Optics and Photonics News

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 46-51

  Krausz, F ^a   Brabec, T ^a   Schnurer M ^a   Spielmann, C ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; HARMONIC GENERATION; LASER PULSES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTONS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

OPTICAL TUNNEL IONIZATION; ULTRASHORT PULSE LASER TECHNOLOGY;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 0032122869     PISSN: 10476938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPN.9.7.000046     Document Type: Article

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