Two-center interference in high-order harmonic generation from heteronuclear diatomic molecules

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 436-447

  Zhu, Xiaosong ^a   Zhang, Qingbin ^a   Hong, Weiyi ^a   Lan, Pengfei ^a   Lu, Peixiang ^a,b  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; MOLECULES;

DESTRUCTIVE INTERFERENCE; HARMONIC ORDERS; HETERONUCLEAR DIATOMIC MOLECULE; HIGH ORDER HARMONIC GENERATION; HIGH ORDER HARMONICS; HIGH-HARMONIC SPECTRUM; HIGHEST OCCUPIED MOLECULAR ORBITAL; HOMONUCLEAR; INTERNUCLEAR SEPARATION; LINEAR COMBINATION OF ATOMIC ORBITALS; PHASE ANALYSIS; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; TWO-CENTER INTERFERENCE;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, CHEMICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 78751490604     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.000436     Document Type: Article

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