Generation of extreme ultraviolet continuum radiation driven by a sub-10-fs two-color field

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 16, 2006, Pages 7230-7237

  Oishi, Yu ^a,b   Kaku, Masanori ^b   Suda, Akira ^b   Kannari, Fumihiko ^a   Midorikawa, Katsumi ^b  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION;

BROADBAND EMISSION; CONTINUUM SPECTRUM; EXTREME-ULTRAVIOLET (XUV) CONTINUUM RADIATION; XUV REGION;

ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ARTICLE; COLOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; LIGHT; NANOTECHNOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COLOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASERS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 33746896546     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.007230     Document Type: Article

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