Two-stage seeded soft-X-ray free-electron laser

Nature Photonics

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 913-918

  Allaria, E ^a   Castronovo, D ^a   Cinquegrana, P ^a   Craievich, P ^a,g   Dal Forno, M ^a,b   Danailov, M B ^a   D'Auria, G ^a   Demidovich, A ^a   De Ninno, G ^a,c   Di Mitri, S ^a   Diviacco, B ^a   Fawley, W M ^a   Ferianis, M ^a   Ferrari, E ^a   Froehlich, L ^a   Gaio, G ^a   Gauthier, D ^a,c   Giannessi, L ^a,d   Ivanov, R ^a   Mahieu, B ^a,e   Mahne, N ^a   Nikolov, I ^a   Parmigiani, F ^a,b   Penco, G ^a   Raimondi, L ^a   Scafuri, C ^a   Serpico, C ^a   Sigalotti, P ^a   Spampinati, S ^a,c   Spezzani, C ^a   Svandrlik, M ^a   Svetina, C ^a,b   Trovo, M ^a   Veronese, M ^a   Zangrando, D ^a   Zangrando, M ^a,f   more..

^a SINCROTRONE TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOVA GORICA   (Slovenia)

^d ENEA   (Italy)

^e CEA SACLAY   (France)

^f LABORATORIO TASC   (Italy)

^g PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT SIGNALS; ENERGY PER PULSE; ENERGY SPREADS; HIGH HARMONICS; PHOTON ENERGY; SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION; SINGLE TRANSVERSE MODES; SOFT X-RAY REGIONS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; FREE ELECTRON LASERS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS;

X RAYS;

EID: 84887092674     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2013.277     Document Type: Article

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