Photonic streaking of attosecond pulse trains

Nature Photonics

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 651-656

  Kim, Kyung Taec ^a   Zhang, Chunmei ^a   Ruchon, Thierry ^b   Hergott, Jean François ^b   Auguste, Thierry ^b   Villeneuve, D M ^a   Corkum, P B ^a   Quere F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b CNRS UMR 3299   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTOSECOND PULSE TRAINS; ELECTRON DYNAMICS; INTENSE LASER PULSE; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PLASMA FORMATIONS; PROPAGATION ANGLE; PUMP-PROBE SPECTROSCOPY; ULTRA-FAST DYNAMICS;

HARMONIC GENERATION;

EID: 84881133322     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2013.170     Document Type: Article

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