XFROG phase measurement of threshold harmonics in a Keldysh-scaled system

Nature Photonics

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 352-356

  Power, Erik P ^a   March, Anne Marie ^b   Catoire, Fabrice ^c   Sistrunk, Emily ^c   Krushelnick, Karl ^a   Agostini, Pierre ^c   Dimauro, Louis F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSS-CORRELATION FREQUENCY; IONIZATION THRESHOLDS; MIDINFRARED LASERS; SPECTRAL AMPLITUDE; STRONG-FIELD PHYSICS; SUM FREQUENCY GENERATION; VACUUM ULTRAVIOLETS; VISIBLE WAVELENGTHS;

OPTICAL CORRELATION;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 77954834505     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2010.38     Document Type: Article

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