Demonstration of high-repetition-rate tabletop soft-x-ray lasers with saturated output at wavelengths down to 13.9nm and gain down to 10.9nm

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2005, Pages

  Wang, Y ^a   Larotonda, M A ^a   Luther, B M ^a   Alessi, D ^a   Berrill, M ^a   Shlyaptsev, V N ^b   Rocca, J J ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAIN SATURATION; PICOSECOND LASER HEATING PULSES; SOFT-X-RAY LASERS;

AMPLIFICATION; NICKEL; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); TELLURIUM; X RAY ANALYSIS;

LASER BEAM EFFECTS;

EID: 28844438956     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.72.053807     Document Type: Article

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