A scheme for a shot-to-shot, femtosecond-resolved pulse length and arrival time measurement of free electron laser x-ray pulses that overcomes the time jitter problem between the FEL and the laser

Journal of Instrumentation

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Juranic P N ^a   Stepanov, A ^a   Peier, P ^b   Hauri, C P ^a,c   Ischebeck, R ^a   Schlott, V ^a   Radovic M ^a   Erny, C ^a   Ardana Lamas, F ^a,c   Monoszlai, B ^a   Gorgisyan, I ^a,c   Patthey, L ^a   Abela, R ^a  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b DESY   (Germany)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

beam intensity monitors; Beam line instrumentation (beam position and profile monitors; bunch length monitors); Gaseous detectors; Interaction of radiation with matter; Ionization and excitation processes

Indexed keywords

JITTER; OPTICAL PUMPING; TIME MEASUREMENT;

BUNCH LENGTH; EXCITATION PROCESS; GASEOUS DETECTORS; INTERACTION OF RADIATION WITH MATTER; PROFILE MONITOR;

FREE ELECTRON LASERS;

EID: 84896916980     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17480221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/9/03/P03006     Document Type: Article

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