Measuring the temporal structure of few-femtosecond free-electron laser X-ray pulses directly in the time domain

Nature Photonics

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 950-957

  Helml, W ^a,b   Maier, A R ^c,d   Schweinberger, W ^b   Grguras I ^c,e   Radcliffe, P ^f   Doumy, G ^g,h   Roedig, C ^h   Gagnon, J ^b   Messerschmidt, M ⁱ   Schorb, S ⁱ   Bostedt, C ⁱ   Gruner F ^c,d   Dimauro, L F ^h   Cubaynes, D ^j   Bozek, J D ⁱ   Tschentscher, Th ^f   Costello, J T ^k   Meyer, M ^f,j   Coffee, R ⁱ   Dusterer S ^l   Cavalieri, A L ^c,e   Kienberger, R ^a,b   more..

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^c Center for Free Electron Laser Science CFEL   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF MATTER   (Germany)

^f EUROPEAN XFEL GMBH   (Germany)

^g ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^h OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ Linac Coherent Light Source   (United States)

^j INSTITUT DES SCIENCES MOLÉCULAIRES D ORSAY   (France)

^k DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

^l DESY   (Germany)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONS; FREE ELECTRON LASERS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

COHERENT X-RAYS; FEMTO-SECOND RESOLUTION; FEMTOSECOND RANGE; KEY CHARACTERISTICS; LINAC COHERENT LIGHT SOURCE; MACHINE PARAMETERS; SHORT WAVELENGTHS; TEMPORAL STRUCTURES;

X RAYS;

EID: 84924234092     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2014.278     Document Type: Article

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