Coherent phase-matched VUV generation by field-controlled bound states

Nature Photonics

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 437-441

  Chini, Michael ^a   Wang, Xiaowei ^a,b   Cheng, Yan ^a   Wang, He ^c   Wu, Yi ^a   Cunningham, Eric ^a   Li, Peng Cheng ^d,e   Heslar, John ^d   Telnov, Dmitry A ^f   Chu, Shih I ^d,g   Chang, Zenghu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e NORTHWEST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^g UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HARMONIC GENERATION; PULSE REPETITION RATE;

FEMTOSECOND OSCILLATORS; HIGH ORDER HARMONICS; QUADRATIC GROWTH; RESONANCE STRUCTURE; SOFT X-RAY SOURCES; ULTRA-FAST SPECTROSCOPIES; ULTRAHIGH REPETITION RATES; VACUUM ULTRAVIOLETS;

PHASE MATCHING;

EID: 84901695634     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2014.83     Document Type: Article

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