Vacuum-ultraviolet frequency combs from below-threshold harmonics

Nature Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 815-820

  Yost, Dylan C ^a   Schibli, Thomas R ^a   Ye, Jun ^a   Tate, Jennifer L ^b   Hostetter, James ^b   Gaarde, Mette B ^b   Schafer, Kenneth J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; HARMONIC GENERATION; IONIZATION OF GASES; IONIZATION POTENTIAL; PHOTOIONIZATION;

EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; GENERATION PROCESS; HIGH HARMONIC GENERATION; HIGH REPETITION FREQUENCIES; IONIZATION THRESHOLDS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMBS; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; VACUUM ULTRAVIOLETS;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 70449522406     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1398     Document Type: Article

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