SU5: A calibrated variable-polarization synchrotron radiation beam line in the vacuum-ultraviolet range

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1024-1037

  Nahon, Laurent ^a,b   Alcaraz, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b CEA SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PHOTONS; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VACUUM APPLICATIONS;

CIRCULAR DICHROISM (CD); VACUUM ULTRAVIOLET (VUV);

LIGHT POLARIZATION;

EID: 1442282641     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.001024     Document Type: Article

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