First lasing of an echo-enabled harmonic generation free-electron laser

Nature Photonics

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 360-363

  Zhao, Z T ^a   Wang, D ^a   Chen, J H ^a   Chen, Z H ^a   Deng, H X ^a   Ding, J G ^a   Feng, C ^a   Gu, Q ^a   Huang, M M ^a   Lan, T H ^a   Leng, Y B ^a   Li, D G ^a   Lin, G Q ^a   Liu, B ^a   Prat, E ^a   Wang, X T ^a   Wang, Z S ^a   Ye, K R ^a   Yu, L Y ^a   Zhang, H O ^a   Zhang, J Q ^a   Zhang, Me ^a   Zhang, Mi ^a   Zhang, T ^a   Zhong, S P ^a   Zhou, Q G ^a   more..

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (China)

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EID: 84861716287     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2012.105     Document Type: Article

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