An X-ray autocorrelator and delay line for the VUV-FEL at TTF/DESY

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5920, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-10

  Mitzner, Rolf ^b   Neeb, Matthias ^a   Noll, Tino ^a   Pontius, Niko ^a   Eberhardt, Wolfgang ^a  

^a HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autocorrelator; Beam splitter; Delay line; FEL; Time resolved; Two photon photoemission; Ultrashort; VUV; X ray

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC DELAY LINES; FREE ELECTRON LASERS; JITTER; LASER PULSES; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; RADIATION;

AUTOCORRELATOR; TIME RESOLVED; TWO PHOTON PHOTOEMISSION; ULTRASHORT; VUV; X RAY;

X RAY OPTICS;

EID: 30844472907     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.617304     Document Type: Conference Paper

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