Coherent optical vortices from relativistic electron beams

Nature Physics

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 549-553

  Hemsing, Erik ^a   Knyazik, Andrey ^b   Dunning, Michael ^a   Xiang, Dao ^a   Marinelli, Agostino ^a   Hast, Carsten ^a   Rosenzweig, James B ^b  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON BEAMS; FREE ELECTRON LASERS; GAUSSIAN BEAMS; LUMINANCE; X RAYS;

COHERENT OPTICAL; ELECTRON DISTRIBUTIONS; EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATIONS; FEMTOSECOND TIME SCALE; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; RELATIVISTIC ELECTRON BEAM; TEMPORAL STRUCTURES; WIDE-RANGING APPLICATIONS;

ELECTRONS;

EID: 84883706649     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys2712     Document Type: Article

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