Optical rotation quasi-phase-matching for circularly polarized high harmonic generation

Optics Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2415-2417

  Liu, Lewis Z ^a   O'Keeffe, Kevin ^a   Hooker, Simon M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR BIREFRINGENCE; CIRCULARLY POLARIZED; COHERENCE LENGTHS; DESTRUCTIVE INTERFERENCE; HIGH HARMONIC GENERATION; QUASI PHASE MATCHING;

OPTICAL ROTATION;

PHASE MATCHING;

EID: 84863681293     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.37.002415     Document Type: Article

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