Design of an extreme-ultraviolet monochromator free from temporal stretching

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1072-1081

  Norin, Johan ^a   Osvay, Karoly ^a,b   Albert, Francois ^a   Descamps, Dominique ^a   Yang, Jianjun ^a   L'Huillier, Anne ^a   Wahlström, Claes Göran ^a  

^a LUND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; HARMONIC GENERATION; INFRARED RADIATION; LASER APPLICATIONS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; ULTRASHORT PULSES; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

FEMTOSECOND LASERS; HIGH-ORDER HARMONIC GENERATION;

MONOCHROMATORS;

EID: 1442307286     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.001072     Document Type: Conference Paper

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