Optical Technologies for Extreme-Ultraviolet and Soft X-ray Coherent Sources / edited by Federico Canova, Luca Poletto.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Canova, Federico., Editor.

Poletto, Luca., Editor.

Series:

Springer Series in Optical Sciences, 0342-4111 ; 197

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lasers.

Photonics.

Optics.

Electrodynamics.

Microwaves.

Optical engineering.

Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices.

Classical Electrodynamics.

Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering.

Local Subjects:

Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices.

Classical Electrodynamics.

Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XIV, 197 p. 90 illus., 53 illus. in color.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2015.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 ultrashort pulses.

Contents:

The soft X-ray free-electron laser FLASH at DESY

The soft X-ray free-electron laser FERMI@ELETTRA

Overview on attosecond sources

Overview on HHG high-flux sources

Seeding free electron Lasers with high-order harmonics generated in gas

Temporal characterization of ultra short extreme-ultraviolet and soft X-ray pulses

Optical metrology – on the inspection of ultra-precise FEL-optics

Multilayer mirrors for coherent extreme-ultraviolet sources

Gratings for ultra short coherent pulses in the extreme ultraviolet.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3-662-47443-3