Beyond attoseconds

Lasers in Engineering

Volumn 24, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 3-12

  Kaplan, A E ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Attosecond; Big Bang; Laser pulse; Planck time; Quark gluon plasmas (QGP); Yoctosecond; Zeptosecond

Indexed keywords

ATTOSECONDS; BIG BANG; PLANCK TIME; QUARK-GLUON PLASMA; YOCTOSECOND; ZEPTOSECOND;

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; LASER PULSES;

PLASMAS;

EID: 84866565920     PISSN: 08981507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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