High flux coherent super-continuum soft X-ray source driven by a single-stage, 10mJ, Ti:sapphire amplifier-pumped OPA

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 6194-6202

  Ding, Chengyuan ^a   Xiong, Wei ^a   Fan, Tingting ^a   Hickstein, Daniel D ^a   Popmintchev, Tenio ^a   Zhang, Xiaoshi ^b   Walls, Mike ^b   Murnane, Margaret M ^a   Kapteyn, Henry C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Kapteyn Murnane Laboratories   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; ELECTRON SOURCES; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; PHASE MATCHING; SAPPHIRE; SUN; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY APPARATUS;

BROAD BANDWIDTHS; BROAD-BAND SPECTRUM; HIGH HARMONIC GENERATION; HOLLOW WAVEGUIDES; MULTIPLE ELEMENTS; REGENERATIVE AMPLIFIER; SOFT X-RAY PHOTONS; SOFT X-RAY SOURCES;

X RAYS;

EID: 84896342019     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.006194     Document Type: Conference Paper

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