Injection of harmonics generated in gas in a free-electron laser providing intense and coherent extreme-ultraviolet light

Nature Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 296-300

  Lambert, G ^a,b,c   Hara, T ^b,d   Garzella, D ^a   Tanikawa, T ^b   Labat, M ^a,c   Carre, B ^a   Kitamura, H ^b,d   Shintake, T ^b,d   Bougeard, M ^a   Inoue, S ^d   Tanaka, Y ^b,d   Salieres, P ^a   Merdji, H ^a   Chubar, O ^c   Gobert, O ^a   Tahara, K ^b   Couprie, M E ^c  

^a CE Saclay   (France)

^b RIKEN SPring 8 Center   (Japan)

^c SYNCHROTRON SOLEIL   (France)

^d RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREE ELECTRON LASERS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION; SYNCHROTRONS; X RAYS;

BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES; EXTREME ULTRA-VIOLET LIGHTS; FEMTOSECOND TIME SCALE; HIGH ORDER HARMONIC GENERATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION SOURCE; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; THREE ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE;

ELECTRONS;

EID: 41549160768     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys889     Document Type: Article

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