Enhanced phase-matching for generation of soft X-ray harmonics and attosecond pulses in atomic gases

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 15351-15364

  Yakovlev, Vladislav S ^a   Ivanov, Misha ^b   Krausz, Ferenc ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GASES; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; INFRARED RADIATION; NONLINEAR DISTORTION;

ATTOSECOND PULSES; IR DRIVING PULSES; LASER WAVELENGTH; PLATEAU HARMONICS;

PHASE MATCHING;

EID: 36248980472     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.015351     Document Type: Article

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