Generation of supercontinuum compressible to single-cycle pulse widths in an ionizing gas

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Serebryannikov, E E ^a   Goulielmakis, E ^b   Zheltikov, A M ^a  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; GASES; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; IONIZATION; RADIATION EFFECTS;

FEW CYCLES; PULSE WIDTHS;

IONIZATION OF GASES;

EID: 51149111645     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/10/9/093001     Document Type: Article

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