Spatially coherent, phase matched, high-order harmonic EUV beams at 50 kHz

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 17376-17383

  Chen, M C ^a   Gerrity, M R ^a   Backus, S ^b   Popmintchev, T ^a   Zhou, X ^a   Arpin, P ^a   Zhang, X ^b   Kapteyn, H C ^a   Murnane, M M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Kapteyn Murnane Laboratories Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHASE MATCHING; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

FEMTOSECOND LASER SYSTEM; HIGH ORDER HARMONIC GENERATION; HIGH ORDER HARMONICS; HIGH REPETITION RATE; LASER-PULSE ENERGY; SPATIAL COHERENCE; TIGHT FOCUSING GEOMETRIES; ULTRA-FAST SPECTROSCOPIES;

PULSE REPETITION RATE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASER; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

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

EID: 70349679111     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.017376     Document Type: Article

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