Focusing multiple high-order harmonics in the extreme-ultraviolet and soft-x-ray regions by a platinum-coated ellipsoidal mirror

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 573-577

  Mashiko, Hiroki ^a   Suda, Akira ^b   Midorikawa, Katsumi ^b  

^a SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELLIPSOMETRY; FOCUSING; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MIRRORS; PLATINUM; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ELLIPSOIDAL MIRRORS; HIGH-ORDER HARMONICS; NEAR-GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; SOFT-X-RAY REGIONS;

ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 33644598627     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.000573     Document Type: Article

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