Petahertz optical oscilloscope

Nature Photonics

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 958-962

  Kim, Kyung Taec ^a   Zhang, Chunmei ^a   Shiner, Andrew D ^a   Schmidt, Bruno E ^b   Légaré, François ^b   Villeneuve, D M ^a   Corkum, P B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b INRS EMT   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTOSECOND PULSE; EXTREME ULTRAVIOLET PULSE; NON-LINEAR OPTICAL; PHOTOINJECTION; RECOLLISION ELECTRONS; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; TIME INTERVAL; TIME-DEPENDENT FIELDS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; INFRARED RADIATION; IONIZATION OF GASES;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

EID: 84889084511     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2013.286     Document Type: Article

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