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High-harmonic generation

Taking control of polarization

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The ability to control the polarization of short-wavelength radiation generated by high-harmonic generation is useful not only for applications but also for testing conservation laws in physics.

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  1. Misha Ivanov and Emilio Pisanty are both at the Department of Physics, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, UK,

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  2. Misha Ivanov is also at Max Born Institute, Max Born Strasse 2A, 12489 Berlin, Germany,

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Ivanov, M., Pisanty, E. Taking control of polarization. Nature Photon 8, 501–503 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2014.141

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