Laser-plasma-based vacuum-ultraviolet light source for tunable single-photon ionization

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 4948-4953

  Borghese, Antonio ^a   Di Palma, Tonia M ^a  

^a ISTITUTO MOTORI CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; SPECTROGRAPHS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EMISSION INTENSITY; GAS JET-LASER PLASMA; PHOTON FLUXES; SINGLE-PHOTON IONIZATION;

LIGHT SOURCES;

EID: 35448966980     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.004948     Document Type: Article

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