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Demonstration of spatial coherence with a compact and ultrafast X-ray source

Authors :
Divine Kumah
Antoine Rousse
Roy Clarke
Gerard Mourou
John Nees
Aghapi Mordovanakis
Bixue Hou
Davide Boschetto
Source :
2006 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference.
Publication Year :
2006
Publisher :
IEEE, 2006.

Abstract

We used Fresnel diffraction from knife-edges to demonstrate spatial coherence of tabletop and ultrafast X-ray sources produced by laser-plasma interaction, and show that source size is limited by the spatial spread of absorbed laser energy.

Details

Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
2006 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........18c602ca30cb9d2139f0695e1e42628b
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1109/cleo.2006.4627599