Wavelength effect on atomic and molecular high harmonic generation driven by a tunable infrared parametric source

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 15061-15067

  Wei, Pengfei ^a   Zhang, Chunmei ^a   Liu, Candong ^a   Huang, Yansui ^a   Leng, Yuxin ^a   Liu, Peng ^a   Zheng, Yinghui ^a   Zeng, Zhinan ^a   Li, Ruxin ^a   Xu, Zhizhan ^a  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; HARMONIC GENERATION; IONIZATION OF GASES; XENON;

DRIVER WAVELENGTH; HIGH HARMONIC GENERATION; HIGH ORDER HARMONIC GENERATION; INFRARED WAVELENGTHS; NUCLEAR MOTIONS; PROTON VIBRATIONS; VIBRATIONAL RESONANCE; WAVELENGTH EFFECTS;

IONIZATION POTENTIAL;

EID: 69049092735     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.015061     Document Type: Article

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