Table-top soft x-ray lasers

Table-top soft x-ray lasers

This article reviews the progress in the development of practical table-top sources of soft x-ray laser radiation. The field is rapidly approaching the stage at which soft x-ray lasers sufficiently compact to fit onto a normal optical table will be routinely utilized in science and technology. This is the result of recent advances in the amplification of soft x-ray radiation in both compact las...

Optimum driving a Z-pinch for soft X-Ray lasers

A capillary plasma z-pinch as an alternative active medium of soft X-Ray lasers was studied experimentally and theoretically. The theoretical analysis was based on the self consistent solution of the so called “snow plow” model. The dynamics of pinched plasma is determined by the capillary parameters and by the time dependence of electrical current passing through it. The current time dependenc...

Progress in the Development of Table-Top Discharge-Pumped Soft X-Ray Lasers

l'he demonstration of large soft x-ray a~nplification in a discharge-created plasma has opened a new patfito the development of compact and practical soft x-ray lasers. We review our progress in the development and study of these ultrashort wavelenglh lams. The field has advanced from the fust observation of large amplificatiod in a discharge-created plasma in Ne-like Ar [J.J. Rocca, V.N. Shlya...

Phase-coherent, injection-seeded, table-top soft-X-ray lasers at 18.9 nm and 13.9 nm

Y. WANG, E. GRANADOS, F. PEDACI, D. ALESSI, B. LUTHER, M. BERRILL AND J. J. ROCCA* National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Science and Technology and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA Department of Physics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA *e-mail: ro...

Design considerations for table-top, laser-based VUV and X-ray free electron lasers