Emission properties of ns and ps laser-induced soft x-ray sources using pulsed gas jets

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 12831-12842

  Müller, Matthias ^a   Kühl, Frank Christian ^a   Großmann, Peter ^a   Vrba, Pavel ^b   Mann, Klaus ^a  

^a LASER LABORATORIUM GÖTTINGEN E V   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLASMA PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IONIZATION OF GASES; LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; MAGNETOPLASMA; X RAYS;

EMISSION CHARACTERISTICS; EMISSION PROPERTIES; LASER INDUCED PLASMA; MODEL CALCULATIONS; PULSE DURATIONS; SHORTER WAVELENGTH; SOFT X-RAY REGIONS; SOFT X-RAY SOURCES;

PULSED LASERS;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; GAS; LASER; RADIATION EXPOSURE; X RAY; RADIATION RESPONSE;

GASES; LASERS; X-RAYS;

GAS;

EID: 84878545263     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.012831     Document Type: Article

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