Generation of intense 11-fs ultraviolet pulses using phase modulation by two types of coherent molecular motions

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 13492-13498

  Kida, Yuichiro ^a   Zaitsu, Shin Ichi ^a   Imasaka, Totaro ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MODULATION; PHASE MODULATION;

CHIRPED MIRRORS; COHERENT ROTATION; COMPRESSED PULSE; MOLECULAR MOTIONS; PARA-HYDROGEN; PUMP PROBE; ULTRAVIOLET PULSE;

OPTICAL PUMPING;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; MOTION; OPTICS; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTION; OPTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 51149086053     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.013492     Document Type: Article

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