An improved double-pulse non-normal incidence pumping geometry for transient collisionally excited soft X-ray lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 10398-10403

  Zimmer, Daniel ^a,b   Zielbauer, Bernhard ^a,b   Bagnoud, Vincent ^a   Eisenbarth, Udo ^a   Javorkova, Dasa ^a   Kuehl, Thomas ^a,b  

^a GSI HELMHOLTZZENTRUM FÜR SCHWERIONENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRY; LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS; OPTICAL PUMPING; PUMPING (LASER); ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EXCITATION PROCESS; NON-NORMAL INCIDENCES; PICO-SECOND PULSE; PULSE ENERGIES; RELIABLE OPERATION; SOFT X-RAY LASER; SPHERICAL MIRROR; TRAVELING WAVE EXCITATION;

X RAY LASERS;

EID: 47249088682     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.010398     Document Type: Article

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