Multi-cycle laser-driven broadband supercontinuum with a modulated polarization gating

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 9795-9803

  Zhang, Qingbin ^a   Lu, Peixiang ^a   Lan, Pengfei ^a   Hong, Weiyi ^a   Yang, Zhenyu ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER PULSES;

ATTOSECOND PULSE; ELECTRON WAVE PACKET; EXTREME ULTRAVIOLETS; POLARIZATION GATING; SECOND-HARMONIC FIELDS; SUPER CONTINUUM; TRANSFORM-LIMITED PULSE; TUNABLE WAVELENGTH;

POLARIZATION;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 46249118330     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.009795     Document Type: Article

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