Atomic inner-shell X-ray laser at 1.46 nanometres pumped by an X-ray free-electron laser

Nature

Volumn 481, Issue 7382, 2012, Pages 488-491

  Rohringer, Nina ^a,d   Ryan, Duncan ^b   London, Richard A ^a   Purvis, Michael ^b   Albert, Felicie ^a   Dunn, James ^a   Bozek, John D ^c   Bostedt, Christoph ^c   Graf, Alexander ^a   Hill, Randal ^a   Hau Riege, Stefan P ^a   Rocca, Jorge J ^b  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Immunology and Pathology   (United States)

^c SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^d DESY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEON;

ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRON; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LASER; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; WAVELENGTH; X-RAY;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRON; IONIZATION; LASER; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY; X RAY FREE ELECTRON LASER; X RAY LASER;

EID: 84856167957     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10721     Document Type: Article

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