Absorption-limited and phase-matched high harmonic generation in the tight focusing regime

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 16, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Rothhardt, Jan ^a,b   Krebs, Manuel ^a   Hädrich, Steffen ^a,b   Demmler, Stefan ^a   Limpert, Jens ^a,b   Tünnermann, Andreas ^a,b,c  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ INSTITUTE JENA   (Germany)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING   (Germany)

Author keywords

absorption limit; high harmonic generation; high repetition rate; phase matching; tight focusing

Indexed keywords

ARGON; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HARMONIC GENERATION; KRYPTON; PHASE MATCHING;

ABSORPTION EFFECTS; HIGH HARMONIC GENERATION; HIGH ORDER HARMONICS; HIGH REPETITION RATE; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PHYSICAL QUANTITIES; PRESSURE DEPENDENCE; TIGHT FOCUSING;

XENON;

EID: 84897974123     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/16/3/033022     Document Type: Article

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