Attosecond nonlinear optics using gigawatt-scale isolated attosecond pulses

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Takahashi, Eiji J ^a   Lan, Pengfei ^a,d   Mücke, Oliver D ^b,c   Nabekawa, Yasuo ^a   Midorikawa, Katsumi ^a  

^a Institute of Physical and Chemical Research   (Japan)

^b DESY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^d HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; ELECTRON; NONLINEARITY; PROBE; SPECTROSCOPY;

ARTICLE; ATTOSECOND NONLINEAR OPTIC; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ENERGY; HISTOGRAM; INFRARED RADIATION; LIGHT; OPTICS; PULSE GENERATOR;

EID: 84893387331     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3691     Document Type: Article

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