High harmonics from solid surfaces as a source of ultra-bright XUV radiation for experiments

Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Horlein R ^a,b   Nomura, Y ^a   Osterhoff, J ^a   Major, Zs ^a,b   Karsch, S ^a   Krausz, F ^a,b   Tsakiris, G D ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTOSECOND; ENERGETIC ELECTRON; ENERGETIC ION; EXTREME ULTRAVIOLETS; GAS JET; HARMONIC BEAMS; HIGH HARMONICS; HIGH ORDER HARMONIC GENERATION; INTENSE FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSE; LASER PLASMA; LASER SYSTEMS; MULTI-SHOT; PLASMA PHYSICS; PLASMA SURFACES; POSSIBLE FUTURES; RADIATION FACILITIES; RADIATION SOURCE; SOFT X-RAY RADIATION; SOLID DENSITY PLASMAS; SOLID SURFACE; SOLID TARGETS; SPECTRAL SHAPING; SURFACE HARMONICS; THIN FOIL; XUV RADIATION;

DYNAMICS; ELECTRON BEAMS; EXPERIMENTS; HARMONIC GENERATION; LASER BEAMS; LASERS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PLASMAS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; QUANTUM OPTICS; SYNCHROTRONS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 67649241022     PISSN: 07413335     EISSN: 13616587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0741-3335/50/12/124002     Document Type: Article

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