Tunable frequency-controlled isolated attosecond pulses characterized by either 750 nm or 400 nm wavelength streak fields

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 25, 2010, Pages 25887-25895

  Mashiko, Hiroki ^a,b   Bell, M Justine ^a,b   Beck, Annelise R ^a,b   Abel, Mark J ^a,b   Nagel, Philip M ^a,b   Steiner, Colby P ^a,b   Robinson, Joseph ^a   Neumark, Daniel M ^a,b   Leone, Stephen R ^a,b  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PUMPS;

ATTOSECONDS; ELECTRONIC TRANSITION; ISOLATED ATTOSECOND PULSE; MACH-ZEHNDER; OPTICAL GATINGS; PULSE DURATIONS; PUMP-AND-PROBE; TUNABLE FREQUENCY;

INTERFEROMETERS;

ARTICLE; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; REFRACTOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INTERFEROMETRY; MINIATURIZATION; REFRACTOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 78650057312     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.025887     Document Type: Article

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