Sub-femtosecond precision measurement of relative X-ray arrival time for free-electron lasers

Nature Photonics

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 706-709

  Hartmann, N ^a,b   Helml, W ^a,c   Galler, A ^d   Bionta, M R ^e   Grunert J ^d   Molodtsov, S L ^d,f   Ferguson, K R ^a   Schorb, S ^a   Swiggers, M L ^a   Carron, S ^a   Bostedt, C ^a   Castagna, J C ^a   Bozek, J ^a   Glownia, J M ^a   Kane, D J ^g   Fry, A R ^a   White, W E ^a   Hauri, C P ^h,i   Feurer, T ^b   Coffee, R N ^a  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d EUROPEAN XFEL GMBH   (Germany)

^e Université Paul Sabatier   (France)

^f TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

^g Mesa Photonics LLC   (United States)

^h PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

ⁱ EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREE ELECTRON LASERS; LIGHT SOURCES; X RAY OPTICS;

COHERENT X-RAY SOURCE; DELAY MEASUREMENTS; LINAC COHERENT LIGHT SOURCE; PRECISION MEASUREMENT; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; TIME-RESOLVED X-RAY MEASUREMENT; X-RAY BEAMLINES; X-RAY FREE ELECTRON LASERS;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 84906948742     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2014.164     Document Type: Article

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