@article{Kneip:2009:10.1038/NPHYS1789,
author = {Kneip, S and McGuffey, C and Martins, JL and Martins, SF and Bellei, C and Chvykov, V and Dollar, F and Fonseca, R and Huntington, C and Kalintchenko, G and Maksimchuk, A and Mangles, SPD and Matsuoka, T and Nagel, SR and Palmer, C and Schreiber, J and Phuoc, KT and Thomas, AGR and Yanovsky, V and Silva, LO and Krushelnick, K and Najmudin, Z},
doi = {10.1038/NPHYS1789},
journal = {Nature Physics},
title = {A Bright Spatially-Coherent Compact X-ray Synchrotron Source},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/NPHYS1789},
year = {2009}
}

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AB  - Each successive generation of x-ray machines has opened up new frontiers inscience, such as the first radiographs and the determination of the structureof DNA. State-of-the-art x-ray sources can now produce coherent high brightnesskeV x-rays and promise a new revolution in imaging complex systems on nanometreand femtosecond scales. Despite the demand, only a few dedicated synchrotronfacilities exist worldwide, partially due the size and cost of conventional(accelerator) technology. Here we demonstrate the use of a recently developedcompact laser-plasma accelerator to produce a well-collimated,spatially-coherent, intrinsically ultrafast source of hard x-rays. This methodreduces the size of the synchrotron source from the tens of metres tocentimetre scale, accelerating and wiggling a high electron chargesimultaneously. This leads to a narrow-energy spread electron beam and x-raysource that is >1000 times brighter than previously reported plasma wiggler andthus has the potential to facilitate a myriad of uses across the whole spectrumof light-source applications.
AU  - Kneip,S
AU  - McGuffey,C
AU  - Martins,JL
AU  - Martins,SF
AU  - Bellei,C
AU  - Chvykov,V
AU  - Dollar,F
AU  - Fonseca,R
AU  - Huntington,C
AU  - Kalintchenko,G
AU  - Maksimchuk,A
AU  - Mangles,SPD
AU  - Matsuoka,T
AU  - Nagel,SR
AU  - Palmer,C
AU  - Schreiber,J
AU  - Phuoc,KT
AU  - Thomas,AGR
AU  - Yanovsky,V
AU  - Silva,LO
AU  - Krushelnick,K
AU  - Najmudin,Z
DO  - 10.1038/NPHYS1789
PY  - 2009///
SN  - 1745-2473
TI  - A Bright Spatially-Coherent Compact X-ray Synchrotron Source
T2  - Nature Physics
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/NPHYS1789
UR  - http://arxiv.org/abs/0912.1812v1
ER  - 

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