Quasi-phase-matched high harmonic generation in hollow core photonic crystal fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 17052-17059

  Ren, H ^a   Nazarkin, A ^a   Nold, J ^a   Russell, P St J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL WHISKERS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HARMONIC GENERATION; IONIZATION OF GASES; OPTICAL PUMPING; PHASE MATCHING; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

COUNTER PROPAGATING LASERS; GAS CELL; HIGH HARMONIC GENERATION; HOLLOW CORE PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER; IONIZATION ELECTRONS; PUMP PULSE; QUASI-PHASE-MATCHED;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

GLASS FIBER;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEASIBILITY STUDY; LASER; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; LASERS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL FIBERS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 54249094169     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.017052     Document Type: Article

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