Collinear generation of ultrashort UV and XUV pulses

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 9173-9180

  Botschafter, E M ^a,b   Schiffrin, A ^a   Yakovlev, V S ^a,c   Azzeer, A M ^d   Krausz, F ^a,c   Ernstorfer, R ^b   Kienberger, R ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HARMONIC GENERATION; INERT GASES; LASER PULSES; PHOTONS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ATTOSECONDS; EXTREME ULTRAVIOLET PULSE; FEMTOSECONDS; HIGH HARMONIC GENERATION; NOBLE GAS; PHOTON ENERGY; PULSE ENERGIES; QUASI-STATIC; THIRD HARMONIC; TIME-RESOLUTION; UV RADIATION; UV- AND; XUV PULSE; XUV RADIATION;

PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 77952068080     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.009173     Document Type: Article

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