Spatiotemporal characterization of single-order high harmonic pulses from time-compensated toroidal-grating monochromator

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 6071-6078

  Ito, Motohiko ^a   Kataoka, Yoshimasa ^a   Okamoto, Tatsuya ^a   Yamashita, Mikio ^a,b   Sekikawa, Taro ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER PULSES; LIGHT; LIGHT SOURCES; MONOCHROMATORS;

A-SPOTS; EXTREME ULTRAVIOLETS; GRATING MONOCHROMATOR; HARMONIC ORDERS; HARMONIC PULSE; HIGH HARMONICS; PHOTON ENERGY; PULSE DURATIONS; PULSE-FRONT TILT; SPATIOTEMPORAL CHARACTERIZATION; XUV LIGHT;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; COLOR; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

COLOR; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; REFRACTOMETRY; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 77949592630     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.006071     Document Type: Article

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