X-ray two-photon absorption competing against single and sequential multiphoton processes

Nature Photonics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 313-316

  Tamasaku, Kenji ^a   Shigemasa, Eiji ^b   Inubushi, Yuichi ^a   Katayama, Tetsuo ^c   Sawada, Kei ^a   Yumoto, Hirokatsu ^c   Ohashi, Haruhiko ^c   Mimura, Hidekazu ^d   Yabashi, Makina ^a   Yamauchi, Kazuto ^e   Ishikawa, Tetsuya ^a  

^a RIKEN SPring 8 Center   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAYS;

EXPERIMENTAL DETERMINATION; HIGHER-ORDER PROCESS; PARAMETRIC DOWN-CONVERSION; SUM-FREQUENCY GENERATION; THIRD-ORDER NONLINEAR OPTICAL; TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTIONS; X-RAY FREE ELECTRON LASERS;

TWO PHOTON PROCESSES;

EID: 84897464663     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2014.10     Document Type: Article

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