Achieving few-femtosecond time-sorting at hard X-ray free-electron lasers

Nature Photonics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 215-218

  Harmand, M ^a,f   Coffee, R ^b   Bionta, M R ^b,c   Chollet, M ^b   French, D ^b   Zhu, D ^b   Fritz, D M ^b   Lemke, H T ^b   Medvedev, N ^a   Ziaja, B ^a,d   Toleikis, S ^a   Cammarata, M ^e  

^a DESY   (Germany)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Poland)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^f ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR MEASUREMENTS; INDEPENDENT MEASUREMENT; LINAC COHERENT LIGHT SOURCE; OPTICAL LASERS; OPTICALLY TRANSPARENT MATERIAL; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARED; SINGLE SHOTS; X RAY PULSE;

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; LIGHT SOURCES; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

X RAYS;

EID: 84874647781     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2013.11     Document Type: Article

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