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Laser-produced plasmas (LPP) are laboratory-scale, table-top and high-brightness sources of partially coherent radiation that can be tuned between the extreme ultraviolet and the hard X-rays. A few LPP emission wavelengths have important applications in bio-photonics. As an example, LPP emitting in the so called “water window” (spectral range λ= 4.4 nm – 2.3 nm)allowed the world first X-ray scanning microscopy and contact microscopy, the latter being able to perform in vivo molecules imaging with 50-nm spatial resolution.
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Lazzaro, P.D. (2011). Laser-Produced Plasmas for Bio-Photonics. In: Bartolo, B., Collins, J. (eds) Biophotonics: Spectroscopy, Imaging, Sensing, and Manipulation. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9977-8_14
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