Single-grating monochromators for extreme-ultraviolet ultrashort pulses

Applied Sciences (Switzerland)

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Poletto, Luca ^a   Frassetto, Fabio ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Diffraction gratings; Extreme ultraviolet spectroscopy; Ultrafast optics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894515286     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20763417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/app3010001     Document Type: Article

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