Overview
- Provides a unified information for the design/realization of new beamlines in the extreme-ultraviolet and soft X-rays
- Presents developments to use coherent light in the X-ray regime
- Displays basics and applications of free electron lasers
- Gives information on photon handling and beam conditioning
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Series in Optical Sciences (SSOS, volume 197)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
Keywords
- Coherent X-ray Lasers
- Extreme-ultraviolet and Soft X-ray Coherent Sources
- Free-electron Lasers
- High-order Laser Harmonics
- High-order Laser Harmonics
- Optical Technologies
- Optical Technologies for XUV and X-ray Coherent Sources
- Synchrotron Radiation
- Technologies for Photon Handling and Conditioning
- X-ray Gas Lasers
About this book
The book reviews the most recent achievements in optical technologies for XUV and X-ray coherent sources. Particular attention is given to free-electron-laser facilities, but also to other sources available at present, such as synchrotrons, high-order laser harmonics and X-ray lasers. The optical technologies relevant to each type of source are discussed. In addition, the main technologies used for photon handling and conditioning, namely multilayer mirrors, adaptive optics, crystals and gratings are explained.
Experiments using coherent light received during the last decades a lot of attention for the X-ray regime. Strong efforts were taken for the realization of almost fully coherent sources, e.g. the free-electron lasers, both as independent sources in the femtosecond and attosecond regimes and as seeding sources for free-electron-lasers and X-ray gas lasers. In parallel to the development of sources, optical technologies for photon handling and conditioning of such coherent and intense X-ray beams advanced. New problems were faced for the realization of optical components of beamlines demanding to manage coherent X-ray photons, e.g. the preservation of coherence and time structure of ultra short pulses.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Optical Technologies for Extreme-Ultraviolet and Soft X-ray Coherent Sources
Editors: Federico Canova, Luca Poletto
Series Title: Springer Series in Optical Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47443-3
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-47442-6Published: 26 August 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-51686-7Published: 22 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-47443-3Published: 17 August 2015
Series ISSN: 0342-4111
Series E-ISSN: 1556-1534
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 197
Number of Illustrations: 37 b/w illustrations, 53 illustrations in colour
Topics: Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices, Classical Electrodynamics, Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering