Monday, 28 April 2008

Coherent X-ray Source Development by Manipulating Atoms in a Super-Intense Femtosecond Laser Field

Yun Hyeok

From the development of super-intense and ultrafast laser fields, strong field phenomena came into being newly in atomic physics related to optics. One phenomena related to strong field effect, which is used to generate coherent X-ray, is high harmonic generation. High harmonic waves are generated by repeated modulation of electron orbit around nucleus by intense laser field. Coherent X-ray, one of high harmonic waves, gives rise to a new era of extreme science in space and time; nano-metrology and atto-physics.

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