Scaling of keV HHG photon yield with drive wavelength

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 2941-2947

  Gordon, Ariel ^a   Kärtner, Franz X ^a  

^a Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Research Laboratory of Electronics Massachusetts Institute of Technology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COHERENT LIGHT; ELECTRONS; GROUND STATE; IONIZATION; LASER APPLICATIONS; LASER PULSES; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; PHOTONS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; X RAYS;

HIGH HARMONIC GENERATION (HHG); PHASE MATCHING; PHOTON YIELD; PONDEROMOTIVE ENERGY; PUMP PULSE;

HARMONIC GENERATION;

EID: 21344461452     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.002941     Document Type: Article

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