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Beam-splitting and recombining of free-electron-laser extreme-ultraviolet radiation

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The design of systems for the splitting of the radiation from a free-electron-laser (FEL) in the extreme-ultraviolet spectral region is presented. Systems for the beam-splitting of the FEL radiation are important, both for having the light available simultaneously to several experiments, and for the division and recombination of the beam (pump-probe techniques). We present systems with a grazing-incidence plane grating, which is illuminated by the single FEL beam and gives several output beams (the zero order and the diffracted orders). The grating gives intrinsically a time stretching of the diffracted beam, so time-compensated configurations are used. Systems for the splitting of the primary beam in two secondary beams and for the splitting and recombining from two beams with variable delay are presented.

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  1. Laboratory for UV and X-Ray Optical Research – INFM, Department of Information Engineering, Padova, Italy

    L. Poletto, P. Azzolin & G. Tondello

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41.60.Cr; 42.79.Dj; 42.79.Fm

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Poletto, L., Azzolin, P. & Tondello , G. Beam-splitting and recombining of free-electron-laser extreme-ultraviolet radiation. Appl Phys B 78, 1009–1011 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-004-1479-5

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