Spatial and temporal coherence properties of single free-electron laser pulses

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 17480-17495

  Singer, A ^a   Sorgenfrei, F ^b   Mancuso, A P ^c   Gerasimova, N ^a   Yefanov, O M ^a   Gulden, J ^a   Gorniak, T ^d,e   Senkbeil, T ^d,e   Sakdinawat, A ^f   Liu, Y ^g   Attwood, D ^g   Dziarzhytski, S ^a   Mai, D D ^h   Treusch, R ^a   Weckert, E ^a   Salditt, T ^h   Rosenhahn, A ^d,e   Wurth, W ^b   Vartanyants, I A ^a,i  

^a DESY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c EUROPEAN XFEL GMBH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^e KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^f SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

ⁱ NATIONAL RESEARCH NUCLEAR UNIVERSITY MEPHI   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE;

COHERENCE TIME; COHERENT PULSE; DELAY UNITS; ENERGY RANGES; EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION; FREE-ELECTRON LASER PULSE; OPERATION CONDITIONS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL COHERENCE; TRANSVERSE COHERENCE; VERTICAL DIRECTION;

FREE ELECTRON LASERS;

EID: 84864628572     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.017480     Document Type: Article

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