Two-colour generation in a chirped seeded free-electron laser: A close look

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 22728-22741

  Mahieu, Benoît ^a,b,c   Allaria, Enrico ^a   Castronovo, Davide ^a   Danailov, Miltcho B ^a   Demidovich, Alexander ^a   De Ninno, Giovanni ^a,c   Di Mitri, Simone ^a   Fawley, William M ^a   Ferrari, Eugenio ^a   Fröhlich, Lars ^a   Gauthier, David ^a,c   Giannessi, Luca ^a,d   Mahne, Nicola ^a   Penco, Giuseppe ^a   Raimondi, Lorenzo ^a   Spampinati, Simone ^a   Spezzani, Carlo ^a   Svetina, Cristian ^a,e   Trovò, Mauro ^a   Zangrando, Marco ^a,f  

^a SINCROTRONE TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b CENTRE D ETUDES DE SACLAY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOVA GORICA   (Slovenia)

^d ENEA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^f IOM CNR LABORATORIO TASC   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT SOURCES;

EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATIONS; EXTREME ULTRAVIOLETS; JITTER-FREE; PUMP-PROBE EXPERIMENTS; SPECTRAL RANGE; TEMPORAL FEATURES;

FREE ELECTRON LASERS;

EID: 84884555323     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.022728     Document Type: Article

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