Carrier-envelope phase-dependent high harmonic generation in the water window using few-cycle infrared pulses

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Ishii, Nobuhisa ^a   Kaneshima, Keisuke ^a   Kitano, Kenta ^a   Kanai, Teruto ^a   Watanabe, Shuntaro ^b   Itatani, Jiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; WATER;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; SAPPHIRE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS; X-RAY;

ARTICLE; GAS; HIGH HARMONIC GENERATION; INFRARED RADIATION; LIGHT; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; PRESSURE; WAVEFORM; X RAY;

EID: 84894336321     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4331     Document Type: Article

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