| Abstrakt: |
The use of intense coherent sources of XUV radiation is diversified in a large field of scientific and technical applications: plasma physics, atomic physics, surface state studies, XUV optics, nonlinear optics, production of ultrashort (attoseconds) XUV light pulses, physics of ultrafast phenomena, biology and others. A large number of applications of soft X-ray lasers and high-order harmonics are already demonstrated. The original properties of coherent sources that application requirements have to fit, separately or together, concern radiation wavelength, coherence and monochromaticity of the beam, pulse energy, pulse duration and repetition rate. In addition, the size of the source facility should be of a usual laboratory scale. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
