Towards optimal control with shaped soft-x-ray light

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 3409-3416

  Pfeifer, Thomas ^a   Spitzenpfeil, Robert ^a   Walter, Dominik ^a   Winterfeldt, Carsten ^a   Dimler, Frank ^a   Gerber, Gustav ^a   Spielmann, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; HARMONIC GENERATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PULSE SHAPING CIRCUITS; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE; ULTRASHORT PULSES; X RAYS;

BRANCHING RATIO; SOFT-X-RAY RANGE;

CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 33947416562     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.003409     Document Type: Article

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