Synchrotron-radiation-operated cryogenic electrical-substitution radiometer as the high-accuracy primary detector standard in the ultraviolet, vacuum-ultraviolet, and soft-x-ray spectral ranges

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 22, 1997, Pages 5421-5440

  Rabus, H ^a   Persch, V ^a,b   Ulm, G ^a  

^a PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

^b SAP RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cryogenics; Detector standards; Electrical substitution; PTB; Radiometry; Synchrotron radiation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001443748     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.005421     Document Type: Article

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