Single-shot terahertz-field-driven X-ray streak camera

Nature Photonics

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 523-528

  Frühling, Ulrike ^a   Wieland, Marek ^b   Gensch, Michael ^a,c   Gebert, Thomas ^b   Schütte, Bernd ^b   Krikunova, Maria ^b   Kalms, Roland ^b   Budzyn, Filip ^b   Grimm, Oliver ^b,d   Rossbach, Jörg ^b   Plönjes, Elke ^a   Drescher, Markus ^b  

^a DESY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTOSECOND METROLOGY; PUMP-PROBE SCHEME; SOFT X-RAY PULSE; SOFT X-RAY RADIATION; TERAHERTZ FIELDS; TIME-RESOLVED SPECTROSCOPY; X-RAY METROLOGY; X-RAY STREAK CAMERAS;

FREE ELECTRON LASERS; LASER SPECTROSCOPY; STREAK CAMERAS;

X RAYS;

EID: 69949173681     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2009.160     Document Type: Article

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