Optimizing intracavity high harmonic generation for XUV fs frequency combs

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 23315-23326

  Lee, Jane ^a   Carlson, David R ^a   Jones, R Jason ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY;

DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS; ELECTRONIC TRANSITION; EXTREME ULTRAVIOLETS; FREQUENCY COMBS; HIGH HARMONIC GENERATION; HIGHLY NONLINEAR; INTRACAVITIES; IONIZATION DYNAMICS; LOW POWER; MOLECULAR SPECTRA; POWER LEVELS; PRECISION SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTRAL REGION; TEMPORALLY RESOLVED MEASUREMENTS; UP-CONVERSION;

HARMONIC GENERATION;

EID: 80755143332     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.023315     Document Type: Article

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