Study of particle correlation effects on line profiles of Ni-like collisional XUV laser amplifier
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We discuss the effects of particle correlations on the spectral broadening due to the radiator motion (Doppler broadening) for a Ni-like XUV laser line pumped in two different regimes (transient and quasi-steady state regimes) of collisional excitation. In a medium with gain, radiative transport effects modify the observed profile and these modifications depend on the homogeneous or inhomogeneous nature of the intrinsic profile (before amplification). The intrinsic line profile is usually described by a Voigt profile, which is the convolution of a Lorentzian profile due to the different homogeneous broadenings (electron collision-induced transitions and spontaneous emission) and an inhomogeneous Gaussian profile due to Doppler shifts (due to the radiator motion in the free-particle limit). In this paper, it is shown that accounting for the correlations between particles modifies noticeably the radiator-motion broadened profiles, whatever the densities and temperatures values.
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