Shaped-pulse optimization of coherent emission of high-harmonic soft x- rays

Nature

Volumn 406, Issue 6792, 2000, Pages 164-166

  Bartels, R ^a   Backus, S ^a   Zeek, E ^a   Misogutl, L ^a   Vdovin, G ^b   Christov, I P ^c   Murnane, M M ^a   Kapteyn, H C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; IONIZATION; LIGHT; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; X RAY;

EID: 0034644213     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35018029     Document Type: Article

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