Highly coherent and stable pulses from the FERMI seeded free-electron laser in the extreme ultraviolet

Nature Photonics

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 699-704

  Allaria, E ^a   Appio, R ^a,b   Badano, L ^a   Barletta, W A ^a,m   Bassanese, S ^a   Biedron, S G ^a,j   Borga, A ^a,c   Busetto, E ^a   Castronovo, D ^a   Cinquegrana, P ^a   Cleva, S ^a   Cocco, D ^a,d   Cornacchia, M ^a   Craievich, P ^a,e   Cudin, I ^a   D'Auria, G ^a   Dal Forno, M ^f   Danailov, M B ^a   De Monte, R ^a   De Ninno, G ^a,g   Delgiusto, P ^a   Demidovich, A ^a   Di Mitri, S ^a   Diviacco, B ^a   Fabris, A ^a   Fabris, R ^a   Fawley, W ^a   Ferianis, M ^a   Ferrari, E ^a   Ferry, S ^a,h   Froehlich, L ^a   Furlan, P ^a   Gaio, G ^a   Gelmetti, F ^a   Giannessi, L ^a,i   Giannini, M ^a   Gobessi, R ^a   Ivanov, R ^a   Karantzoulis, E ^a   Lonza, M ^a   Lutman, A ^a,d,f   Mahieu, B ^a,g,h   Milloch, M ^a   Milton, S V ^a,j   Musardo, M ^a   Nikolov, I ^a   Noe, S ^a,f   Parmigiani, F ^a,f   Penco, G ^a   Petronio, M ^a,f   Pivetta, L ^a   Predonzani, M ^a   Rossi, F ^a   Rumiz, L ^a   Salom, A ^a   Scafuri, C ^a   Serpico, C ^a   Sigalotti, P ^a   Spampinati, S ^a,d,g   Spezzani, C ^a   Svandrlik, M ^a   Svetina, C ^a   Tazzari, S ^a,k   Trovo, M ^a   Umer, R ^a   Vascotto, A ^a   Veronese, M ^a   Visintini, R ^a   Zaccaria, M ^a   Zangrando, D ^a   Zangrando, M ^a,l   more..

^a SINCROTRONE TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c NIKHEF   (Netherlands)

^d SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^e PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NOVA GORICA   (Slovenia)

^h CEA SACLAY   (France)

ⁱ ENEA   (Italy)

^j Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^l LABORATORIO TASC   (Italy)

^m MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMISSION PROCESS; EXTERNAL LASERS; EXTREME ULTRAVIOLET; SELF-AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; SPECTRAL REGION; SPECTROSCOPY APPLICATIONS; WAVELENGTH RANGES; WAVELENGTH STABILITY;

FREE ELECTRON LASERS;

EID: 84867067095     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2012.233     Document Type: Article

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