Bright, point X-ray source based on a commercial portable 40 ps Nd:YAG laser system

Laser and Particle Beams

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 373-379

  Faenov, Anatoly ^a,d   Pikuz, Tatiana ^a   Magunov, Alexander ^a,b   Batani, Dimitri ^c   Lucchini, Gianni ^c   Canova, Federico ^c   Piselli, Moreno ^c  

^a Natl Res Inst Phyiscal Tech R   (Russian Federation)

^b PROKHOROV GENERAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^d Multicharged Ions Spectra Data Center of VNIIFTRI   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Ps laser; X ray plasma sources; X ray spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; LITHOGRAPHY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHOTONS; PLASMAS; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY; X RAYS;

ELECTRON DISTRIBUTION; LASER SYSTEMS; LASER WAVELENGTH; MULTI-CHARGED IONS;

LASERS;

EID: 10044244749     PISSN: 02630346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0263034604223230     Document Type: Conference Paper

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