Separation of high order harmonics with fluoride windows

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 8941-8946

  Allison, T K ^a,b   Van Tilborg, J ^b   Wright, T W ^a,b   Hertlein, M P ^b   Falcone, R W ^a,b   Belkacem, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; ETHYLENE; FLUORINE COMPOUNDS;

ETHYLENE MOLECULES; FEMTOSECOND DYNAMICS; HIGH ORDER HARMONIC GENERATION; HIGH ORDER HARMONICS;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

FLUORIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FLUORIDES; OPTICAL DEVICES; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 66449132010     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.008941     Document Type: Article

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