Influence of generalized focusing of few-cycle Gaussian pulses in attosecond pulse generation

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 24991-24999

  Karimi, Ebrahim ^a,e   Altucci, Carlo ^a,b   Tosa, Valer ^c   Velotta, Raffaele ^a,b   Marrucci, Lorenzo ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b CNISM Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze Fisiche della Materia   (Italy)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF ISOTOPIC AND MOLECULAR TECHNOLOGIES   (Romania)

^d CNR SPIN   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOCUSING; NONLINEAR OPTICS; WAVEFRONTS;

ATTOSECOND PULSE GENERATION; CURVED WAVEFRONTS; DIFFRACTION EFFECTS; DIFFRACTIVE LENS; ISOLATED ATTOSECOND PULSE; PHASE RETARDATION; QUASI-MONOCHROMATIC; REFRACTIVE LENS;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 84886410018     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.024991     Document Type: Article

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