Femtosecond crystallographic experiment in wide-bandgap LiF crystal

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 2797-2804

  Dachraoui, Hatem ^a   Oberer, Christian ^a   Heinzmann, Ulrich ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IONIZATION; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; PROBES;

AVALANCHE IONIZATION; CRYSTALLINE SAMPLES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC STUDIES; DIRECTION DEPENDENCE; FEMTOSECONDS; FREE ELECTRON; LASER POLARIZATION; LIF CRYSTAL; NONLINEAR IONIZATION; PROBE PULSE; SEED ELECTRONS; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; WIDE BAND GAP;

PULSE GENERATORS;

FLUORIDE; LITHIUM DERIVATIVE; LITHIUM FLUORIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; FLUORIDES; LIGHT; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 79851476252     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.002797     Document Type: Article

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