Towards isolated attosecond pulses at megahertz repetition rates

Nature Photonics

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 555-559

  Krebs, Manuel ^a   Hädrich, Steffen ^a,b   Demmler, Stefan ^a   Rothhardt, Jan ^a,b   Zaïr, Amelle ^c   Chipperfield, Luke ^d   Limpert, Jens ^a,b   Tünnermann, Andreas ^a,b,e  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ INSTITUTE JENA   (Germany)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^e FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTREME ULTRAVIOLET RADIATIONS; EXTREME ULTRAVIOLETS; HIGH HARMONIC GENERATION; HIGH REPETITION RATE; INDISPENSABLE TOOLS; ISOLATED ATTOSECOND PULSE; PUMP PROBE MEASUREMENT; SPATIALLY RESOLVED;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; PUMPING (LASER); Q SWITCHED LASERS;

HARMONIC GENERATION;

EID: 84879686763     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2013.131     Document Type: Article

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