Transient collisional excitation X-ray lasers with 1-ps tabletop drivers

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1441-1446

  Dunn, James ^a   Osterheld, Albert L ^a   Li, Yuelin ^a   Nilsen, Joseph ^a   Shlyaptsev, Vyacheslav N ^b  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; IONIZATION; IONS; LASER PULSES; NEON; NICKEL; PALLADIUM; PLASMAS; TRANSIENTS;

BEAM DIVERGENCE; TRANSIENT COLLISIONAL EXCITATION; TRANSIENT GAIN;

X RAY LASERS;

EID: 0033225568     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.814982     Document Type: Article

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