High-order harmonic generation employing field enhancement by metallic fractal rough surfaces

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 20910-20915

  Kim, Kwang Hyon ^a,b   Husakou, Anton ^a   Herrmann, Joachim ^a  

^a MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b State Academy of Sciences   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTALS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; INERT GASES; OPTICAL PUMPING; PUMPS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

FIELD ENHANCEMENT; FRACTAL ROUGH SURFACE; FRACTAL STRUCTURES; GRAZING INCIDENCE; HIGH ORDER HARMONIC GENERATION; HOT SPOT; INTENSITY ENHANCEMENT FACTORS; PLATEAU REGION; PUMP INTENSITIES; PUMP PULSE; RESTRICTED SOLID-ON-SOLID MODELS; ROUGH SURFACES; S-POLARIZED;

HARMONIC GENERATION;

METAL; NANOMATERIAL;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COLLOID; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; INCIDENCE; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURFACE PROPERTY; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; COLLOIDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FRACTALS; INCIDENCE; METALS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 80053936400     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.020910     Document Type: Article

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