Coherent superposition of laser-driven soft-X-ray harmonics from successive sources

Nature Physics

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 878-883

  Seres, J ^a,b   Yakovlev, V S ^c   Seres, E ^a,b   Streli, Ch ^a   Wobrauschek, P ^a   Spielmann, Ch ^b   Krausz, F ^c,d  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOM LASERS; DENSITY OF GASES; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HARMONIC GENERATION; IONIZATION OF GASES; LASER PULSES; PHASE MATCHING;

COHERENT SUPERPOSITIONS; DESTRUCTIVE INTERFERENCE; FOCUSED LASER BEAMS; HIGH ORDER HARMONIC GENERATION; QUASI-PHASE-MATCHED; SHORT PROPAGATION; SHORT WAVELENGTHS; VELOCITY MISMATCH;

X RAYS;

EID: 36749039103     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys775     Document Type: Article

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