Two-colour pump-probe experiments with a twin-pulse-seed extreme ultraviolet free-electron laser

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Allaria, E ^a   Bencivenga, F ^a   Borghes, R ^a   Capotondi, F ^a   Castronovo, D ^a   Charalambous, P ^b   Cinquegrana, P ^a   Danailov, M B ^a   De Ninno, G ^a,c   Demidovich, A ^a   Di Mitri, S ^a   Diviacco, B ^a   Fausti, D ^a,d   Fawley, W M ^a   Ferrari, E ^a   Froehlich, L ^a   Gauthier, D ^a,c   Gessini, A ^a   Giannessi, L ^a,e   Ivanov, R ^a   Kiskinova, M ^a   Kurdi, G ^a   Mahieu, B ^a,f   Mahne, N ^a   Nikolov, I ^a   Masciovecchio, C ^a   Pedersoli, E ^a   Penco, G ^a   Raimondi, L ^a   Serpico, C ^a   Sigalotti, P ^a   Spampinati, S ^a   Spezzani, C ^a   Svetina, C ^a,d   Trovo M ^a   Zangrando, M ^a,g   more..

^a SINCROTRONE TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b ZonePlates Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOVA GORICA   (Slovenia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^e ENEA   (Italy)

^f DIF   (France)

^g LABORATORIO TASC   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TITANIUM;

DIFFRACTION; ELECTRON; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LASER; PROBE; PUMP; TITANIUM;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; DIFFRACTION; ELECTRON; ELECTRON BEAM; FREE ELECTRON LASER; HYDRODYNAMICS; IONIZATION; LASER; MECHANICAL PROBE; POLARIZATION; PULSE GENERATOR; PUMP PROBE; RADIOFREQUENCY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; X RAY;

EID: 84888025928     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3476     Document Type: Article

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