We report the demonstration of a gain-saturated 10.9 nm tabletop soft x-ray laser operating at 1 Hz repetition rate. Lasing occurs by collisional electron impact excitation in the 4dS01-->4pP11 transition of nickel-like Te in a line-focus plasma heated by a chirped-pulse-amplification Ti:sapphire laser. With an average power of 1muW and pulse energy up to approximately 2microJ, this laser exten...

Abstract Laser processing is a highly versatile technique for the post-synthesis treatment and modification of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs). However, to date, TMDCs synthesis typically relies on large area CVD growth lithographic post-processing nanodevice fabrication, thus relying heavily complex, capital intensive, vacuum-based environments fabrication tools. This inflexibility ne...

Atomic anions are generally not amenable to optical spectroscopy because they are loosely bound systems and rarely have bound excited states. Until recently, there was only one known negative ion with a strong bound–bound electronic transition, the osmium anion Os−. The electric-dipole transition between the F9/2 ground and DJ excited state of this ion provides unique insight into the structure...

The optically pumped rare-gas metastable laser is a chemically inert analogue to three-state optically pumped alkali laser systems. The concept requires efficient generation of electronically excited metastable atoms in a continuous-wave (CW) electric discharge in flowing gas mixtures near atmospheric pressure. We have observed CW optical gain and laser oscillation at 912.3 nm using a linear mi...

To gain a complete understanding of a chemical reaction, it is necessary to determine the structural changes that occur to the reacting molecules during the reaction. Chemists have long dreamed of being able to determine the molecular structure changes that occur during a chemical reaction, including the structures of transition states (TSs). The use of ultrafast spectroscopy to gain a detailed...

Laser-induced crystallization in glass is a new crystallization technique of glass materials. This article reports the progress in the patterning of nonlinear optical crystal lines on the glass surface by laser irradiation techniques. Two techniques for the patterning of crystal lines have been developed, i.e., rare-earth atom heat processing and transition metal atom heat processing, in which ...

We present a simple method for diode laser frequency stabilization that makes use of a Doppler-broadened vapor cell absorption signals of two frequency-shifted laser beams. Using second-order-diffracted, double-passed beams from an acousto-optic modulator, we achieve a frequency separation roughly equal to the Doppler half width. The differential transmission signals of the two beams provide an...