Generation of high-order harmonics with ultra-short pulses from filamentation

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 16177-16182

  Steingrube, Daniel S ^a,b   Schulz, Emilia ^a,b   Binhammer, Thomas ^c   Vockerodt, Tobias ^a,b   Morgner, Uwe ^a,b,d   Kovačev, Milutin ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^b CENTRE FOR QUANTUM ENGINEERING AND SPACE TIME RESEARCH QUEST   (Germany)

^c Laser Quantum GmbH   (Germany)

^d LASER ZENTRUM HANNOVER E V   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INERT GASES; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

CHIRPED MIRRORS; FILAMENTATION; GAS CELL; HIGH ORDER HARMONICS; PHOTON FLUX; SINGLE ATTOSECOND PULSE; SPECTRAL BROADENING;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 69949110659     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.016177     Document Type: Article

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