Two-colour hard X-ray free-electron laser with wide tunability

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Hara, Toru ^a   Inubushi, Yuichi ^a   Katayama, Tetsuo ^b   Sato, Takahiro ^a   Tanaka, Hitoshi ^a   Tanaka, Takashi ^a   Togashi, Tadashi ^b   Togawa, Kazuaki ^a   Tono, Kensuke ^b   Yabashi, Makina ^a   Ishikawa, Tetsuya ^a  

^a RIKEN SPring 8 Center   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LASER; PARAMETERIZATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WAVELENGTH; X-RAY;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; ELECTRON BEAM; LASER; LIGHT; PHOTON; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION; X RAY; X RAY FREE ELECTRON LASER;

COLOR; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASERS; TIME FACTORS; X-RAYS;

EID: 84890207318     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3919     Document Type: Article

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