Vacuum-free x-ray source based on ultrashort laser irradiation of solids

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 17695-17705

  Hou, Bixue ^a   Easter, James ^a   Mordovanakis, Aghapi ^a   Krushelnick, Karl ^a   Nees, John A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GERMANIUM; LASER PULSES; ULTRAFAST LASERS; X RAY APPARATUS;

EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT; HELIUM FLOW; LASER-PULSE ENERGY; SOURCE SIZES; SPECTRAL BAND; ULTRAFAST LASER-BASED X-RAY SOURCE; X-RAY SOURCES; X-RAY SPECTRA;

ELECTRON SOURCES;

EID: 55349087926     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.017695     Document Type: Article

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