Free-electron laser at the TESLA test facility at DESY: Towards a tunable short-pulsed soft X-ray source

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4505, Issue , 2001, Pages 131-145

  Gerth, Christopher ^a  

^a DESY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Free Electron Laser; SASE; Soft X Ray; VUV; X Ray Laser

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON BEAMS; FREE ELECTRON LASERS; MONOCHROMATORS; PHASE SPACE METHODS; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

SELF-AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSION (SASE);

X RAY LASERS;

EID: 0035767184     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.450583     Document Type: Conference Paper

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