Investigation of soft x-ray emission in the 'water window' for microscopy using a double-stream gas puff target irradiated with the Prague Asterix Laser System (PALS)

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4502, Issue , 2001, Pages 47-54

  Fiedorowicz, Henryk ^a   Bartnik, Andrzej ^a   Horvath, Martin ^a   Juha, Libor ^a   Jungwirth, Karel ^a   Králiková, Božena ^a   Krása, Josef ^a   Mocek, Tomáš ^a   Pfeifer, Miroslav ^a   Pína, Ladislav ^a   Skála, Jiří ^a   Ullschmied, Jiří ^a   Wawer, Janusz ^a  

^a MILITARY UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Gas puff target; Laser applications; Laser produced x ray sources; X ray microscopy; X ray optics

Indexed keywords

HELIUM; IRRADIATION; LASER APPLICATIONS; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; NITROGEN; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

X-RAY IMAGING MICROSCOPES;

X RAYS;

EID: 18644372989     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.449852     Document Type: Conference Paper

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