Bright spatially coherent synchrotron X-rays from a table-top source

Nature Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 980-983

  Kneip, S ^a   McGuffey, C ^b   Martins, J L ^c   Martins, S F ^c   Bellei, C ^a   Chvykov, V ^b   Dollar, F ^b   Fonseca, R ^c,d   Huntington, C ^b   Kalintchenko, G ^b   Maksimchuk, A ^b   Mangles, S P D ^a   Matsuoka, T ^b   Nagel, S R ^a   Palmer, C A J ^a   Schreiber, J ^a   Phuoc, K Ta ^e   Thomas, A G R ^b   Yanovsky, V ^b   Silva, L O ^c   Krushelnick, K ^b   Najmudin, Z ^a   more..

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^d INSTITUTO UNIVERSITÁRIO DE LISBOA ISCTE IUL   (Portugal)

^e LABORATOIRE D OPTIQUE APPLIQUÉE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRON SOURCES; LIGHT SOURCES; X RAY APPARATUS;

COHERENT SYNCHROTRON X-RAY; HIGH BRIGHTNESS; HIGH CHARGES; KILOELECTRONVOLT; STATE OF THE ART; SYNCHROTRON SOURCE; X RAY MACHINE; X-RAY SOURCES;

X RAYS;

EID: 78649858342     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1789     Document Type: Article

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