Compensation of optical path lengths in extreme-ultraviolet and soft-x-ray monochromators for ultrafast pulses

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 28, 1999, Pages 6040-6049

  Villoresi, Paolo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b INFM   (Italy)

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EID: 0000760160     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.006040     Document Type: Article

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