Skip to main content
  • Book
  • © 2015

Optical Technologies for Extreme-Ultraviolet and Soft X-ray Coherent Sources

  • 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)

Buy it now

Buying options

eBook USD 84.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check for access.

Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
  2. The Soft X-ray Free-Electron Laser FLASH at DESY

    • E. Plönjes, K. Tiedtke
    Pages 1-21
  3. The Soft X-ray Free-Electron Laser FERMI@Elettra

    • Marco Zangrando, Nicola Mahne, Lorenzo Raimondi, Cristian Svetina
    Pages 23-40
  4. Overview on Attosecond Sources

    • Francesca Calegari, Giuseppe Sansone, Mauro Nisoli
    Pages 41-62
  5. Overview on HHG High-Flux Sources

    • Willem Boutu, Mathieu Ducousso, Jean-François Hergott, Hamed Merdji
    Pages 63-78
  6. Seeding Free Electron Lasers with High Order Harmonics Generated in Gas

    • Marie-Emmanuelle Couprie, Luca Giannessi
    Pages 79-113
  7. Temporal Characterization of Ultrashort Extreme-Ultraviolet and Soft X-ray Pulses

    • Michele Devetta, Matteo Negro, Salvatore Stagira, Caterina Vozzi
    Pages 115-135
  8. Multilayer Mirrors for Coherent Extreme-Ultraviolet and Soft X-ray Sources

    • Charles Bourassin-Bouchet, Sébastien de Rossi, Franck Delmotte
    Pages 151-173
  9. Back Matter

    Pages 195-197

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

  • Amplitude Technologies, Evry, France

    Federico Canova

  • National Research Council, Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnology, Padova, Italy

    Luca Poletto

Bibliographic Information

Buy it now

Buying options

eBook USD 84.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access