Few-femtosecond time-resolved measurements of X-ray free-electron lasers

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Behrens, C ^a,b   Decker, F J ^a   Ding, Y ^a   Dolgashev, V A ^a   Frisch, J ^a   Huang, Z ^a   Krejcik, P ^a   Loos, H ^a   Lutman, A ^a   Maxwell, T J ^a   Turner, J ^a   Wang, J ^a   Wang, M H ^a   Welch, J ^a   Wu, J ^a  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b DESY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTRON BEAM; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY RESOURCE; FEMTOSECOND LASER; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; RADIATION FIELD; RADIOFREQUENCY; X RAY FREE ELECTRON LASER; DIAGNOSTIC USE; ELECTRON; LASER; TIME; X RAY;

ELECTRONS; LASERS; TIME FACTORS; X-RAYS;

EID: 84899886896     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4762     Document Type: Article

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