High-brightness table-top hard X-ray source driven by sub-100-femtosecond mid-infrared pulses

Nature Photonics

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 927-930

  Weisshaupt, Jannick ^a   Juvé, Vincent ^a   Holtz, Marcel ^a   Ku, Shinan ^a   Woerner, Michael ^a   Elsaesser, Thomas ^a   Ališauskas, Skirmantas ^b   Pugžlys, Audrius ^b   Baltuška, Andrius ^b  

^a MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFRARED DEVICES; KINETIC ENERGY; OPTICAL PUMPING; PHOTONS; PROBES; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS; X RAY ABSORPTION;

COMPACT LASERS; CONDENSED PHASE; HARD X-RAY SOURCES; HIGH BRIGHTNESS; MID-INFRARED PULSE; SENSITIVITY LIMIT; THEORETICAL SIMULATION; TIME-RESOLVED;

X RAYS;

EID: 84924370302     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2014.256     Document Type: Article

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