Towards full characterization of nickel-like soft-x-ray lasers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4505, Issue , 2001, Pages 93-99

  Balmer, Jürg E ^a   Braud, Maité ^a   Siegel, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Coherence; Collisional excitation; Gain saturation; Ni like lasers; X ray lasers

Indexed keywords

GAIN MEASUREMENT; IRRADIATION; LASER PULSES; PUMPING (LASER); SPONTANEOUS EMISSION;

COLLISIONAL EXCITATION;

X RAY LASERS;

EID: 0035762476     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.450578     Document Type: Article

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