High-precision x-ray FEL pulse arrival time measurements at SACLA by a THz streak camera with Xe clusters

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 24, 2014, Pages 30004-30012

  Juranic P N ^a   Stepanov, A ^a   Ischebeck, R ^a   Schlott, V ^a   Pradervand, C ^a   Patthey, L ^a   Radovic M ^a   Gorgisyan, I ^a,b   Rivkin, L ^a,b   Hauri, C P ^a,b   Monoszlai, B ^a,c   Ivanov, R ^d   Peier, P ^d   Liu, J ^e   Togashi, T ^f   Owada, S ^g   Ogawa, K ^g   Katayama, T ^g   Yabashi, M ^g   Abela, R ^a  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^d DESY   (Germany)

^e EUROPEAN XFEL GMBH   (Germany)

^f JAPAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^g RIKEN SPring 8 Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONS; OPTICAL PUMPING; PHOTONS; PUMPING (LASER); STREAK CAMERAS; TIME MEASUREMENT; XENON;

ACCURATE MEASUREMENT; ARRIVAL TIME; GAS CLUSTERS; HIGH-PRECISION; PHOTON BEAMS; PHOTON ENERGY; PULSE ARRIVAL TIME; PUMP-PROBE EXPERIMENTS;

FREE ELECTRON LASERS;

XENON;

CHEMISTRY; DEVICES; ELECTRON; LASER; LIGHT; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHOTON; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; TIME; X RAY;

ELECTRONS; LASERS; LIGHT; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHOTONS; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; TIME FACTORS; X-RAYS; XENON;

EID: 84914694875     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.030004     Document Type: Article

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