Chirp effect in hard X-ray generation from liquid target when irradiated by femtosecond pulses

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 12650-12657

  Hatanaka, Koji ^a   Ida, Takahito ^b   Ono, Hiroshi ^b   Matsushima, Shin Ichi ^b   Fukumura, Hiroshi ^b   Juodkazis, Saulius ^c   Misawa, Hiroaki ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIRP MODULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; SOLUTIONS; X RAY ANALYSIS; X RAY PRODUCTION;

ANGULAR DEPENDENCE; DENSITY EVOLUTION; HARD X-RAY GENERATION; MULTI-PHOTON ABSORPTION; RESONANT ABSORPTION; SPECTRAL BANDWIDTH; X-RAY EMISSION INTENSITY; X-RAY GENERATION;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASER; RADIATION SCATTERING; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; THEORETICAL MODEL; X RAY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASERS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SOLUTIONS; X-RAYS;

EID: 50149110660     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.012650     Document Type: Article

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