Moiré technique for spatial coherence measurements of soft-x-ray lasers

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 790-793

  Yang, Jun ^a   Fan, Dianyuan ^a   Wang, Shiji ^a   Gu, Yuan ^a  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; X RAY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASERS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOIRE TOPOGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS; X-RAYS;

COHERENT LIGHT; DECOMPOSITION; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT REFLECTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

SPATIAL COHERENCE MEASUREMENTS;

X RAY LASERS;

EID: 0034170212     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.17.000790     Document Type: Article

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