Controlling high harmonic generation with molecular wave packets

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 12, 2005, Pages

  Itatani, J ^a,b,e   Zeidler, D ^a   Levesque, J ^a,c   Spanner, Michael ^a,d   Villeneuve, D M ^a   Corkum, P B ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c INRS EMT   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^e LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTREME UV (XUV); HIGHEST OCCUPIED MOLECULAR ORBITAL (HOMO); LASER POLARIZATION; MOLECULAR WAVE PACKETS;

CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; IONIZATION; LASER PULSES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MODULATION; PACKET NETWORKS; PROBABILITY; PULSE GENERATORS; SPECTROMETERS;

HARMONIC GENERATION;

EID: 18244397206     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.123902     Document Type: Article

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