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Title: Efficient Excitation of Gain-Saturated Sub-9-nm-Wavelength Tabletop Soft-X-Ray Lasers and Lasing Down to 7.36 nm
NSF-PAR ID:
10002701
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Publisher / Repository:
American Physical Society
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Physical Review X
Volume:
1
Issue:
2
ISSN:
2160-3308
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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