High-intensity double-pulse X-ray free-electron laser

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Marinelli, A ^a   Ratner, D ^a   Lutman, A A ^a   Turner, J ^a   Welch, J ^a   Decker, F J ^a   Loos, H ^a   Behrens, C ^a,b   Gilevich, S ^a   Miahnahri, A A ^a   Vetter, S ^a   Maxwell, T J ^a   Ding, Y ^a,c   Coffee, R ^a   Wakatsuki, S ^a   Huang, Z ^a  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b DESY   (Germany)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; LASER; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PROBE; SAMPLING; WAVELENGTH; X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

ARTICLE; COLOR; COLORIMETRY; DISPERSION; ELECTRON; ENERGY; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; LASER; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; PHOTON; X RAY; X RAY FREE ELECTRON LASER;

EID: 84924566020     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7369     Document Type: Article

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