Quasi-phase-matching high harmonic generation using trains of pulses produced using an array of birefringent plates

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 6236-6247

  O'Keeffe, Kevin ^a   Robinson, Tom ^a   Hooker, Simon M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIGNAL ANALYSIS;

BIREFRINGENT PLATES; COHERENCE LENGTHS; COUNTERPROPAGATING; HARMONIC SIGNALS; HIGH HARMONIC GENERATION; PRESSURE DEPENDENCE; QUASI PHASE MATCHING; QUASI-PHASE-MATCHED;

PHASE MATCHING;

ARTICLE; BIREFRINGENCE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; REFRACTOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

BIREFRINGENCE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; REFRACTOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84858967542     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.006236     Document Type: Article

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