Comparison of focusing optics for femtosecond X-ray diffraction

Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 715-719

  Bargheer, M ^a   Zhavoronkov, N ^a   Bruch, R ^b   Legall, H ^a   Stiel, H ^a   Woerner, M ^a   Elsaesser, T ^a  

^a MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; MIRRORS; PHOTODIODES; PHOTONS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS; X RAYS;

FEMTOSECOND PLASMAS; FOCUSING OPTICS; LASER-BASED PLASMA SOURCES; OPTICAL LENSES;

OPTICS;

EID: 18244383760     PISSN: 09462171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00340-005-1792-7     Document Type: Article

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