Generation of bright phase-matched circularly-polarized extreme ultraviolet high harmonics

Nature Photonics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 99-105

  Kfir, Ofer ^a   Grychtol, Patrik ^b   Turgut, Emrah ^b   Knut, Ronny ^b,c   Zusin, Dmitriy ^b   Popmintchev, Dimitar ^b   Popmintchev, Tenio ^b   Nembach, Hans ^b,c   Shaw, Justin M ^c   Fleischer, Avner ^a,d   Kapteyn, Henry ^b   Murnane, Margaret ^b   Cohen, Oren ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d ORT BRAUDE COLLEGE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR POLARIZATION; DICHROISM; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; IONIZATION OF GASES; LIGHT SOURCES; MAGNETISM; X RAYS;

CIRCULARLY POLARIZED; CIRCULARLY POLARIZED LASER PULSE; ELECTRONIC AND MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; EXTREME ULTRAVIOLET; HOLLOW CORE WAVEGUIDE; LINEARLY POLARIZED; MAGNETIC CIRCULAR DICHROISMS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL RESOLUTIONS;

PHASE MATCHING;

EID: 84923130435     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2014.293     Document Type: Article

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