Generation of intense continuum extreme-ultraviolet radiation by many-cycle laser fields

Nature Physics

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 846-850

  Tzallas, P ^a   Skantzakis, E ^b   Kalpouzos, C ^a   Benis, E P ^a   Tsakiris, G D ^c   Charalambidis, D ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM PLASMA INTERACTIONS; LASER BEAMS; LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; PUMPING (LASER); ULTRAVIOLET LASERS;

EXTREME ULTRAVIOLET; EXTREME ULTRAVIOLET EMISSION; EXTREME ULTRAVIOLET RADIATIONS; HIGH INTENSITY; HIGH INTENSITY PULSE; LASER-PLASMA INTERACTIONS; MULTIPLE PULSE; OPTICAL CYCLES;

PULSED LASERS;

EID: 36749082799     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys747     Document Type: Article

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