Enhanced harmonic conversion efficiency in the self-guided propagation of femtosecond ultraviolet laser pulses in argon Academic Article

abstract

• Harmonic generation during the self-guided propagation of femtosecond ultraviolet (UV) laser pulses (248-nm, 450-fs) in argon is investigated. The third (82.7-nm) and fifth (49.6-nm) harmonics are generated in the UV filament. The energy-conversion efficiencies for the harmonics are found to be at least two orders of magnitude higher than those reported in the literature for similar gas pressures. The enhancement is attributed to the quasi-phase matching of the harmonics due to the self-guiding of the driving pulse.

authors

• Tzortzakis, Stylianos

published proceedings

• APPLIED PHYSICS B-LASERS AND OPTICS

author list (cited authors)

• Kortsalioudakis, N., Tatarakis, M., Vakakis, N., Moustaizis, S. D., Franco, M., Prade, B., ... Tzortzakis, S.

citation count

• 34

complete list of authors

• Kortsalioudakis, N||Tatarakis, M||Vakakis, N||Moustaizis, SD||Franco, M||Prade, B||Mysyrowicz, A||Papadogiannis, NA||Couairon, A||Tzortzakis, S

publication date

• February 2005

publisher

• Springer Nature  Publisher

published in

• n0946-2171ISSN  Journal

keywords

• 7 Affordable And Clean Energy

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1007/s00340-004-1683-3

start page

• 211

end page

• 214

volume

• 80

issue

• 2

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00340-004-1683-3

user-defined tag

• 7 Affordable and Clean Energy