Towards jitter-free pump-probe measurements at seeded free electron laser facilities

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 12869-12879

  Danailov, Miltcho B ^a   Bencivenga, Filippo ^a   Capotondi, Flavio ^a   Casolari, Francesco ^a   Cinquegrana, Paolo ^a   Demidovich, Alexander ^a   Giangrisostomi, Erika ^a   Kiskinova, Maya P ^a   Kurdi, Gabor ^a   Manfredda, Michele ^a   Masciovecchio, Claudio ^a   Mincigrucci, Riccardo ^a,b   Nikolov, Ivaylo P ^a   Pedersoli, Emanuele ^a   Principi, Emiliano ^a   Sigalotti, Paolo ^a  

^a SINCROTRONE TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; OPTICAL PUMPING; PROBES; TIMING JITTER;

FREE ELECTRON; MEASUREMENTS OF; OPTICAL LASERS; PUMP PROBE MEASUREMENT; PUMP-PROBE EXPERIMENTS; TRANSIENT REFLECTIVITY; ULTRA-FAST DYNAMICS; X-RAY FREE ELECTRON LASERS;

FREE ELECTRON LASERS;

EID: 84901856434     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.012869     Document Type: Article

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