Scaling of high harmonic generation conversion efficiency

Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Gkortsas, Vasileios Marios ^a   Bhardwaj, Siddharth ^a   Falcão Filho, Edilson L ^a,b   Hong, Kyung Han ^a   Gordon, Ariel ^a   Kärtner, Franz X ^a  

^a Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC IONIZATION; HALF CYCLE; HIGH HARMONIC GENERATION; HIGH HARMONICS; HIGH ORDER HARMONICS; LONG WAVELENGTH; PHASE MISMATCH; QUANTITATIVE PREDICTION;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HARMONIC GENERATION;

LASER THEORY;

EID: 79951901023     PISSN: 09534075     EISSN: 13616455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-4075/44/4/045601     Document Type: Article

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