Interaction of a pulsed gas target with Nd-laser radiation and laser-produced plasma

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4781, Issue , 2002, Pages 17-25

  Ragozin, Eugene N ^a   Levashov, Vladimir E ^a   Mednikov, Konstantin N ^a   Pirozhkov, Alexander S ^a   Sasorov, Pavel V ^b  

^a LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Aperiodic multilayer mirrors; Charge exchange; Laser produced plasma; Pulsed Xe target; Soft X rays; Stigmatic spectrograph

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; FOCUSING; LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS; LASER PULSES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIRRORS; NEODYMIUM LASERS; PHOTODIODES; SPECTROGRAPHS; XENON;

CONCAVE SOFT X RAY MULTILAYER MIRROR; PULSED XENON JET; SOFT X RAY RADIATION; SOFT X RAY RADIATION SOURCE; SOFT X RAY SPECTROGRAPH; STIGMATIC HIGH TRANSMISSION BROADBAND DIFFRACTION SPECTROGRAPH;

X RAY OPTICS;

EID: 0036986502     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.450964     Document Type: Conference Paper

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