Hard X-ray free-electron laser based on echo-enabled staged harmonic generation scheme

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 221-227

  Feng, Chao ^a,b   Zhao, ZhenTang ^a  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Coherent hard X ray; Echo enabled harmonic generation; Echo enabled staged harmonic generation; High gain harmonic generation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77749261570     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-010-0002-0     Document Type: Article

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