X-ray Chirped Pulse Amplification: towards GW Soft X-ray Lasers

X-ray Chirped Pulse Amplification: towards GW Soft X-ray Lasers

Extensive modeling of the seeding of plasma-based soft X-ray lasers is reported in this article. Seminal experiments on amplification in plasmas created from solids have been studied in detail and explained. Using a transient collisional excitation scheme, we show that a 18 μJ, 80 fs fully coherent pulse is achievable by using plasmas pumped by a compact 10 Hz laser. We demonstrate that direct ...

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...

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...

A proposal for multi-tens of GW fully coherent femtosecond soft X-ray lasers

X-ray free-electron lasers delivering up to 1 X 10 coherent photons in femtosecond pulses are bringing about a revolution in X-ray science'. However, some plasma-based soft X-ray lasers are attractive because they spontaneously emit an even higher number of photons (1 X 10), but these are emitted in incoherent and long (hundreds of picoseconds) pulses as a consequence of the amplification of st...

X Ray and Gamma Ray Lasers