Characteristics of a saturated 18.9-nm tabletop laser operating at 5-Hz repetition rate

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1363-1367

  Larotonda, M A ^a   Luther, B M ^a   Wang, Y ^a   Liu, Y ^b   Alessi, D ^a   Berrill, M ^a   Dummer, A ^a   Brizuela, F ^a   Menoni, C S ^a   Marconi, M C ^a   Shlyaptsev, V N ^c   Dunn, J ^d   Rocca, J J ^a  

^a Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Grazing incidence pumping; High repetition rate; Nickel like Mo; X ray laser

Indexed keywords

IONIZATION; MOLYBDENUM; NICKEL; OPTICAL PUMPING; PLASMAS; X RAY LASERS;

GRAZING INCIDENCE PUMPING; HIGH-REPETITION RATE; TABLETOP LASERS;

LASERS;

EID: 13844275823     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2004.838038     Document Type: Article

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