Demonstration scheme for a laser-plasma-driven free-electron laser

Physical Review X

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Maier, A R ^a,b,c   Meseck, A ^d   Reiche, S ^e   Schroeder, C B ^f   Seggebrock, T ^c   Gruner F ^a,b,c  

^a Center for Free Electron Laser Science   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

^e PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^f LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Photonics; Plasma physics

Indexed keywords

FEMTO-SECOND RESOLUTION; HIGH BRIGHTNESS; LASER-PLASMA ACCELERATOR; OPTICAL LASERS; PLASMA PHYSICS; PROOF OF PRINCIPLES; PUMP-PROBE EXPERIMENTS; SPECTRAL WIDTHS; VACUUM ULTRAVIOLETS; X RAY PULSE;

ELECTRON BEAMS; EXPERIMENTS; LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS; LIGHT SOURCES; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; OPTICAL PUMPING; PHOTONICS; PLASMA ACCELERATORS; PLASMA INTERACTIONS;

FREE ELECTRON LASERS;

EID: 84869006984     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.2.031019     Document Type: Article

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