Atomic diffraction in counterpropagating Gaussian pulses of laser light
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Control of laser high-harmonic generation with counterpropagating light.
Relatively weak counterpropagating light is shown to disrupt the emission of laser high-harmonic generation. Harmonic orders ranging from the teens to the low thirties produced by a 30-femtosecond pulse in a narrow argon jet are "shut down" with a contrast as high as 2 orders of magnitude by a chirped 1-picosecond counterpropagating laser pulse (60 times less intense). Alternatively, under poor...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review A
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1050-2947,1094-1622
DOI: 10.1103/physreva.76.063619