High harmonic generation by novel fiber amplifier based sources

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 20242-20250

  Hadrich S ^a,b   Rothhardt, J ^a,b   Krebs, M ^a,b   Tavella, F ^b,c   Willner, A ^b,c   Limpert, J ^a,b   Tunnermann A ^a,b,d  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ INSTITUTE JENA   (Germany)

^c DESY   (Germany)

^d FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER AMPLIFIERS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HARMONIC GENERATION; OPTICAL PUMPING; PULSE AMPLIFIERS;

AVERAGE POWER; EXTREME ULTRAVIOLET; FEW-CYCLE PULSE; FIBER TECHNOLOGY; GAS JET; HIGH AVERAGE POWER; HIGH HARMONIC GENERATION; HIGH REPETITION RATE; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC CHIRPED-PULSE AMPLIFIERS; REPETITION RATE;

PULSE REPETITION RATE;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; SOLID STATE LASER;

AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LASERS, SOLID-STATE;

EID: 77956993567     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.020242     Document Type: Article

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