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Frontiers in Optics

Macroscopic Manipulation of High-Harmonic-Generation Through Bound-State Coherent Control

Itai Hadas, Alon Bahabad

Published Jan 1, 2014• 0 citations
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Abstract

It is theoretically shown that coherent control of atomic bound states can achieve macroscopic control over the process of High-order Harmonic Generation. In particular purely temporal Quasi-Phase-Matching is numerically demonstrated.
DOI
10.1364/fio.2014.jtu4e.4

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