Generating single attosecond pulse using multi cycle lasers in a polarization gate

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 17700-17710

  Tosa, Valer ^a   Kovacs, Katalin ^a   Altucci, Carlo ^b   Velotta, Raffaele ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF ISOTOPIC AND MOLECULAR TECHNOLOGIES   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

EXPERIMENTAL SCHEME; MACROSCOPIC EFFECTS; PHASE CALCULATION; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; POLARIZATION GATING; QUANTUM TRAJECTORIES; SCHEME OPTIMIZATION; SINGLE ATTOSECOND PULSE;

POLARIZATION;

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

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 70349664584     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.017700     Document Type: Article

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