Arbitrarily shaped high-coherence electron bunches from cold atoms

Nature Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 785-788

  McCulloch, A J ^a   Sheludko, D V ^a   Saliba, S D ^a   Bell, S C ^a   Junker, M ^a   Nugent, K A ^a   Scholten, R E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

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EID: 80053601285     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys2052     Document Type: Article

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