High-repetition rate compact ultrashort x-ray source and applications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4978, Issue , 2003, Pages 92-100

  Egbert, André ^a   Chichkov, Boris N ^a  

^a LASER ZENTRUM HANNOVER E V   (Germany)

Author keywords

Femtosecond laser; Photocathodes; Ultrashort hard x rays; X ray diode

Indexed keywords

DIODES; NUMERICAL METHODS; PHOTOCATHODES; PHOTONS; PLASMAS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

FEMTOSECOND LASERS;

X RAYS;

EID: 0141456439     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.473188     Document Type: Conference Paper

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