Atomic inner-shell x-ray laser pumped by an x-ray free-electron laser

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Rohringer, Nina ^a   London, Richard ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEMTOSECOND X-RAY PULSE; LASING LINES; LINAC COHERENT LIGHT SOURCE; SMALL-SIGNAL GAIN; STANFORD; X RAY PULSE; X-RAY FREE ELECTRON LASERS; X-RAY LASER; X-RAY PHYSICS;

ATOMS; LIGHT; LIGHT SOURCES; PUMPING (LASER); X RAY LASERS;

X RAYS;

EID: 68549132544     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.013809     Document Type: Article

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