Quasi-phase matching and characterization of high-order harmonic generation in hollow waveguides using counterpropagating light

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 6544-6566

  Lytle, Amy L ^a   Zhang, Xiaoshi ^a   Sandberg, Richard L ^a   Cohen, Oren ^a   Kapteyn, Henry C ^a   Murnane, Margaret M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; HARMONIC GENERATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHASE MATCHING;

COUNTERPROPAGATING LIGHT; HOLLOW WAVEGUIDES; QUASI-PHASE MATCHING;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

ARGON; HELIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; LIGHT; PHOTON; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECTROSCOPY;

ARGON; HELIUM; LIGHT; PHOTONS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 43049143555     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.006544     Document Type: Review

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