Observation of high-contrast coherence fringes in high-order harmonic generation
- 29 September 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 68 (3) , 033819
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.68.033819
Abstract
We present a direct measurement of the coherence length in the high-order-harmonic generation process up to orders as high as 25. The harmonic signal generated in an argon gas cell by a 805-nm, 6-mJ, 30-fs laser is studied as a function of medium length and shows very high-contrast coherence fringes. From a one-dimensional time-dependent model, we unravel the conditions for which such Maker fringes can appear in high-order harmonic generation.Keywords
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