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Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research

Coherent VUV Emission from Field-Controlled Bound States

Michael Chini, Xiaowei Wang, Yan Cheng, He Wang, Yi Wu, Eric Flint Cunningham, Peng-Cheng-Li, John Heslar, Dmitry A. Telnov, Shih‐I Chu, Zenghu Chang

Published Jan 1, 2014• 0 citations
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Abstract

We demonstrate a dramatic enhancement of the below-threshold harmonics in the vicinity of atomic resonances. The dependence on the driving laser carrier-envelope phase suggests a nonperturbative mechanism. Phase matching promises scalability to microJoule pulse energies.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2014.fm2b.5

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