Laser-driven relativistic recollisions

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Hatsagortsyan, Karen Z ^a   Klaiber, Michael ^a,b   Müller, Carsten ^a   Kohler, Markus C ^a   Keitel, Christoph H ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON SCATTERING;

ATTOSECOND PULSE TRAINS; COUNTERPROPAGATING; EXTREME ULTRAVIOLET; HIGH ORDER HARMONICS; MEGA-ELECTRON-VOLT; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; RELATIVISTIC REGIME; STRONG LASER FIELD;

ELECTRONS;

EID: 51849098647     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.25.000B92     Document Type: Conference Paper

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