Simultaneous generation of sub-20 fs deep and vacuum ultraviolet pulses in a single filamentation cell and application to time-resolved photoelectron imaging

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 22423-22428

  Horio, Takuya ^a,b   Spesyvtsev, Roman ^a,b   Suzuki, Toshinori ^a,b,c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c Institute of Physical and Chemical Research   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOUR WAVE MIXING; LIGHT SOURCES; NEON; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

CASCADED FOUR-WAVE MIXING; CROSS CORRELATIONS; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; MATERIAL DISPERSIONS; SECOND HARMONIC PULSE; TI: SAPPHIRE LASER; TIME-RESOLVED PHOTOELECTRON IMAGING; VACUUM ULTRAVIOLETS;

VACUUM;

EID: 84884537181     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.022423     Document Type: Article

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