Monochromatization of femtosecond XUV light pulses with the use of reflection zone plates

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 10747-10760

  Metje, Jan ^a,b   Borgwardt, Mario ^a,b   Moguilevski, Alexandre ^a,b   Kothe, Alexander ^a,b   Engel, Nicholas ^a,b   Wilke, Martin ^a,b   Al Obaidi, Ruba ^a,b   Tolksdorf, Daniel ^a,b   Firsov, Alexander ^a   Brzhezinskaya, Maria ^a   Erko, Alexei ^a   Kiyan, Igor Yu ^a,b   Aziz, Emad F ^a,b  

^a HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HARMONIC GENERATION;

CROSS CORRELATION TECHNIQUES; FEMTOSECOND LIGHT PULSE; HIGH ORDER HARMONIC GENERATION; MONOCHROMATIZATION; PULSE DISTORTION; REFLECTION ZONES; TEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS; USE OF REFLECTIONS;

OPTICAL PUMPING;

EID: 84899877370     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.010747     Document Type: Article

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