Demonstration of saturated high repetition rate tabletop soft x-ray lasers at wavelengths down to 13.2 nm

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5919, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-12

  Rocca, J J ^a   Wang, Y ^a   Larotonda, M A ^a   Luther, B M ^a   Alessi, D ^a   Berrill, M ^a   Weith, A ^a   Marconi, M C ^a   Menoni, C S ^a   Shlyaptsev, V N ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Grazing incidence pumping; Neon like ions; Nickel like ions; Soft x ray laser; Table top soft x ray lasers

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON BEAMS; IONS; LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS; LASER PULSES; RADIATION; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION);

GRAZING INCIDENCE PUMPING; NEON-LIKE IONS; NICKEL-LIKE IONS; SOFT X-RAY LASERS; TABLE-TOP SOFT X-RAY LASERS;

X RAY LASERS;

EID: 30844454433     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.621786     Document Type: Conference Paper

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