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Control of the Polarization of a Vacuum-Ultraviolet, High-Gain, Free-Electron Laser

E. Allaria, B. Diviacco, Carlo Callegari, P. Finetti, Jens Viefhaus, Marco Zangrando, G. De Ninno, G. Lambert, Eugenio Ferrari, Jens Buck,

Physical Review X · 2014 · 133 citations · 58 references

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The FERMI facility in Trieste, Italy, is ideal for generating and measuring light characterized by tunable polarization states in the vacuum ultraviolet spectral range. New results reveal a high degree of polarization (>0.9) over 26--55 nanometers.

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