The optical design of the soft X-ray self seeding at LCLS

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8849, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Cocco, Daniele ^a   Abela, Rafael ^b   Amann, John W ^a   Chow, Ken ^c   Emma, Paul J ^c   Feng, Yiping ^a   Gassner, Georg L ^a   Hastings, Jerome ^a   Heimann, Philip ^a   Huang, Zhirong ^a   Loos, Henrik ^a   Montanez, Paul A ^a   Morton, Daniel ^a   Nuhn, Heinz Dieter ^a   Ratner, Daniel F ^a   Rodes, Larry N ^c   Flechsig, Uwe ^b   Welch, James J ^a   Wu, Juhao ^a  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Paul Scherrer Intitute   (Switzerland)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Free electron laser; Self seeding; Soft X ray monochromator; Variable line spacing gratings

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRON SOURCES; FREE ELECTRON LASERS; MIRRORS; MONOCHROMATORS; OPTICAL DESIGN; WIGGLERS; X RAY APPARATUS; X RAY OPTICS;

GRATING MONOCHROMATOR; INCIDENCE ANGLES; MONOCHROMATIC BEAM; NARROW BANDWIDTH; SELF SEEDING; SOFT X-RAY MONOCHROMATORS; SOFT X-RAY REGIONS; VARIABLE LINE SPACING GRATINGS;

X RAYS;

EID: 84888882308     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2024402     Document Type: Conference Paper

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