Compression methods for XUV attosecond pulses

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 23420-23428

  Mero, Mark ^a   Frassetto, Fabio ^b   Villoresi, Paolo ^b,c   Poletto, Luca ^b   Varjú, Katalin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTOSECOND PULSE; ATTOSECONDS; COMPRESSION METHODS; EXTREME ULTRAVIOLETS; HIGH HARMONICS; HIGH ORDER HARMONIC GENERATION; METAL FILM; METALLIC FILTERS; POSITIVE CHIRP; TRANSMISSION FILTERS; TRANSMISSION WINDOW; TUNABILITIES;

HARMONIC GENERATION;

EID: 80755126964     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.023420     Document Type: Article

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