Saturation in neon- and nickel-like collisional soft-X-ray lasers at low pump energy

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1435-1440

  Balmer, Jürg E ^a,b   Tommasini, Riccardo ^a,c,d   Löwenthal, Frank ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c ENEA   (Italy)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON; IRRADIATION; LASER PULSES; NEON; NICKEL; PUMPING (LASER); SILVER; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

COLLISIONAL EXCITATION; GAIN SATURATION; NEON LIKE LASERS; PULSE IRRADIATION;

X RAY LASERS;

EID: 0033225567     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.814981     Document Type: Article

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