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Vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) and soft x-ray (SXR) radiation is available from well-established laboratory (rotating anode, sliding sparks, etc.) and facility-based (synchrotron, etc.) light sources, as well as from more developmental laser — driven (plasma, direct and indirect generation, etc.) light sources. Hence, the experimenter often is confronted with the problem of choosing the best light source to use for a particular application. This process often begins and ends with a rapid survey of tabular information such as the sample comparision of properties for light sources from each of the three previously mentioned groupings in Table 4.1, which contains data abstracted from a 1980 survey report [4.1] on VUV sources and applications. While the tabulated interrelationships in Table 4.1 remain roughly the same today (the “laser, indirect generation” and “laser generated plasmas” values now appear to have been over and under estimates, respectively), it should be emphasized that any such comparative listing of source properties can be extremely misleading.
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Ginter, M.L. (1984). Laser Produced Plasma VUV and Soft X-Ray Light Sources. In: Schmahl, G., Rudolph, D. (eds) X-Ray Microscopy. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 43. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-38833-3_5
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