ABCD formalism and attosecond few-cycle pulse via chirp manipulation of a seeded free electron laser

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 20, 2007, Pages 12749-12754

  Wu, Juhao ^a   Bolton, Paul R ^a   Murphy, James B ^b   Wang, Kelin ^c,d  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^d SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HARMONIC GENERATION; INFRARED RADIATION; LASER PULSES; MANIPULATORS; PULSE COMPRESSION;

ABCD FORMALISM; ATTOSECOND FEW-CYCLE PULSE; CHIRP MANIPULATION; INTRINSIC FREQUENCY CHIRP;

FREE ELECTRON LASERS;

EID: 35148853047     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.012749     Document Type: Article

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