A compact soft X-ray spectrograph combining high efficiency and resolution

Journal of Instrumentation

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Faustlin R R ^a   Zastrau, U ^b   Toleikis, S ^a   Uschmann, I ^b   Forster E ^b   Tschentscher, T H ^c  

^a DESY   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c EUROPEAN XFEL GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Detector design and construction technologies and materials; Instrumentation for FEL; Plasma diagnostics interferometry, spectroscopy and imaging

Indexed keywords

DETECTOR DESIGN; FILTER WHEEL; LIGHT WEIGHT; REFLECTION GRATINGS; THOMSON SCATTERING; TOROIDAL MIRRORS; TOTAL CROSS SECTION; Z-DIRECTIONS;

LIGHT SCATTERING; PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS; X RAY SPECTROGRAPHS; X RAYS;

INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 76349110516     PISSN: 17480221     EISSN: 17480221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/5/02/P02004     Document Type: Article

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