Optimization of nickel-like collisional soft-X-ray lasers at low pump power;Optimisation d'un laser collisionnel X-UV à ions nickeloïdes pour les faibles puissances de pompage

Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences - Series IV: Physics, Astrophysics

Volumn 1, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1019-1024

  Braud, M ^a   Lowenthal F ^a   Balmer, J E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Collisional excitation; Gain saturation; Ne like lasers; Ni like lasers; X ray lasers

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034288525     PISSN: 12962147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1296-2147(00)01108-2     Document Type: Article

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