X-Ray Lasers 1996: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on X-Ray Lasers held in Lund, Sweden, 10-14 June, 1996

by Svanberg; Sune

• ISBN13: 9780750304061
• ISBN10: 0750304065
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-01-01
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

This volume contains the invited & contributed papers presented at the 5th International Conference on X-ray Lasers. It provides not only an overview & progress report on this fast moving field, but also important reference material on which future work can be built. Topics covered include collisional X-ray Lasers, table-top X-ray lasers, beam optics, X-ray optics, OFI & photo-pumped schemes, capillary schemes, international laser facilities, XUV nonlinear mixing, alternative soft X-ray sources, diagnostics & applications. As such, X-ray Lasers 1996 is an essential addition to the libraries of researchers in the field worldwide.

Table of Contents

Preface
Conference organisation
Sponsors
X-ray laser progress and applications experiments at LULI	p. 1
Development and application of ultra-bright laser and harmonic XUV sources	p. 9
An overview of soft x-ray laser research at SIOFM	p. 17
Experiments towards X-ray lasers for applications	p. 25
Possibility of short wavelength X-ray lasers and their applications	p. 32
Wide spectral range soft X-ray lasing with Ni-like ions	p. 40
Progress in the control and optimization of the 21.2 nm zinc laser	p. 47
Investigation of gain in low-Z nickel-like ions: results on tin and silver	p. 50
Efficiency improvements of the Ne-like collisional X-ray laser scheme	p. 53
Characterisation of a saturated single frequency Ne-like Ge XUV laser on the J = 0 [actual symbol not reproducible] 1 transition at 19.6 nm	p. 56
Theory of X-ray lasers at saturation intensity	p. 59
A near diffraction limit soft X-ray laser obtained by travelling wave amplification experiment	p. 67
The optical problem in the design for an amplifier of X-ray laser with high quality	p. 70
Time-resolved investigation of neon-like J = 0 - 1 X-ray lasers	p. 73
Laser-irradiated gas puff targets and X-ray lasing with neon-like argon and nickel-like xenon ions	p. 76
Efficient X-ray lasers in neon-like utilizing transient gain	p. 84
Density profile smoothing in a transient gain X-ray laser	p. 91
Transient high gains at 196 [actual symbol not reproducible] produced by picosecond pulse heating of a preformed germanium plasma	p. 94
Oxidation of lanthanides and its effect on X-ray lasers	p. 99
Recent progress in lithium-like aluminum recombining plasma lasers in RIKEN	p. 102
Impurity effects on gain of soft X-ray laser with aluminum recombination plasma	p. 107
An analysis of gain-decreasing over a long plasma medium for recombination X-ray laser	p. 110
Balmer-[alpha] soft X-ray amplification in a carbon plasma produced by short-pulse lasers	p. 113
Study of C VI Balmer-[alpha] 18.2 nm line in a Z-pinch carbon plasma by computer simulation	p. 116
Optimum laser driver for the soft X-ray amplification in a recombination magnesium plasma	p. 119
High gain recombination XUV lasers and efficient XUV harmonics from ps laser pulse interactions with solid targets	p. 122
Development of hydrodynamics and atomic kinetic codes for recombination X-ray lasers	p. 130
Experimental investigation of recombining processes in 10 ps KrF laser produced plasmas	p. 133
The optical-field and inner-shell ionization schemes for X-ray lasing	p. 136
Target considerations for inner-shell photoionized X-ray lasing	p. 143
Reduction of the required laser intensity for optical-field-ionized X-ray lasers	p. 146
Lasing to ground state in Li III at 13.5 nm	p. 151
Hydrodynamic perspective on OFI-plasma X-ray lasers	p. 156
Electron energy relaxation and distribution functions of OFI-plasmas	p. 161
Self-photopumped neon-like and nickel-like X-ray lasers	p. 164
Simulations of inner-shell photoionization X-ray lasers	p. 169
Investigations towards the realization of an innershell X-ray laser in Na	p. 173
Advances in discharge-pumped soft X-ray lasers: from the observation of gain to achievement of the saturation limit and energy extraction	p. 176
Capillary discharge soft X-ray amplifier for use in amplifying harmonic radiation	p. 184
Amplified spontaneous emission of the J = 2 [actual symbol not reproducible] 1, 3p-3s transition of neon-like argon in a capillary discharge	p. 187
Ablative capillary discharges as possible XUV laser sources	p. 192
Magnetohydrodynamic simulation of capillary plasmas	p. 197
Study on table-top X-ray lasers pumped by a YAG laser	p. 200
Measurement of gain and double-pass amplification of Li-like A1 soft X-ray transitions pumped by a pulse-train YAG laser	p. 207
Cavity experiment in a table-top X-ray laser pumped by a pulse-train YAG laser	p. 211
Theoretical aspects of efficient downsized X-ray lasers	p. 215
Demonstration of intense soft-X-ray lasing at 28.5 nm in neon-like chromium pumped by a compact Nd:glass laser	p. 224
Ground state lasers: theory and experiments	p. 227
On the feasibility of Ne-like XUV lasers pumped by a fs laser	p. 234
Spectroscopic studies in the soft X-ray region using a femtosecond terawatt laser	p. 237
Progress in understanding the prepulse and multiple pulse techniques	p. 240
The effects of multi-pulse irradiation on X-ray laser media	p. 247
Improving the efficiency of collisionally excited X-ray lasers using multiple 100 ps pulses	p. 250
Ne- and Ni-like X-ray lasers using the prepulse technique	p. 255
Effects of density structures and pulse temporal shaping	p. 260
Theoretical investigation of the prepulse action on the anomalous Ne-like 3p J = 0/3s J = 1 amplification	p. 269
International laser facilities	p. 274
Sub-20-fs multiterawatt lasers and X-ray applications	p. 282
YAG laser systems and a new irradiation method for compact X-ray laser systems	p. 289
New approach to recombination X-ray lasera - exploding mode pumping	p. 293
Self-channelling of a multiterawatt ultra-short laser pulse in argon gas jets - shadowgraphy imaging	p. 296
Long plasma columns produced in gas by axicon focusing of a table-top laser	p. 301
Reduction of small-scale intensity modulation in a line focus produced by a cylindrical-lens array	p. 306
Charge exchange in ion-ion collisions	p. 309
Effects related to the large-scale longitudinal nonuniformities of the active media of X-ray lasers	p. 312
ASE in X-ray lasers with random optical inhomogenities	p. 315
Ion microfield effects on laser gains in recombination and photopumping X-ray laser schemes	p. 318
On the possibility to increase the efficiency of Ge X-ray laser collisional scheme by use of Mg Ly-[alpha] irradiation	p. 321
Self-alignment and alignment relaxation in neon-like germanium plasma: Monte-Carlo simulation	p. 324
Atomic data for the polarization of Ne-like germanium	p. 327
Zeeman splitting in collisional lasers	p. 330
Gain and intensity calculations using Stark line shapes in soft-X-ray lasers	p. 333
ASE at gain saturation: two investigation approaches	p. 336
Recombination X-ray lasers in a plasma waveguide	p. 339
Laser effect modelling for plasma containing suprahot electron beams	p. 342
Molybdenum/silicon multilayer mirrors for 4.47 nm X-rays	p. 347
Search for optimum structural parameters of multilayer soft X-ray laser reflectors	p. 350
Multilayer reflector for polarization analysis of XUV radiation	p. 353
Spectroscopic characterization of plane multilayer diffraction gratings using a laser-plasma soft X-ray radiation source	p. 358
Interferometer for single-shot soft X-ray laser linewidth measurements	p. 361
A novel transmission grating spectrograph with pre-optics	p. 364
Time-resolved X-ray diffraction from laser-heated crystals	p. 367
Spectroscopic investigations of X-ray laser media	p. 372
Spectroscopy studies of the resonance line emission in the Ge XXIII XUV laser	p. 380
Spectroscopic analysis of Li-like Ti and Ca X-ray laser media	p. 383
Observation of transitions from inner-shell 2p2p[superscript 6]3l states in neon-like ions	p. 386
Prepulse dependence of soft X-ray spectra from plasmas created by femtosecond IR laser pulses on solids	p. 391
Investigation of prepulse plasmas for collisional excitation X-ray lasers	p. 394
Spectroscopy of Zn and Cu line plasmas generated on a slab target by irradiances 10[superscript 10]-10[superscript 11] W cm[superscript -2]	p. 399
Effective heating of a plasma by producing on a very thin membrane	p. 402
Stark shift observation and density measurement in a laser-produced plasma	p. 405
High-resolution monochromatic X-ray imaging of extended plasma columns	p. 408
Time resolved measurement of ionization balance for various Ni-like X-ray laser plasmas	p. 413
Time evolution of X-ray emission nonuniformity in line-shaped laser plasmas	p. 416
How can keV lasing from long channels be verified?	p. 420
New approach for measurement of the X-ray laser transverse coherence	p. 427
High resolution two-dimensional near field images of neon-like soft X-ray lasers	p. 430
Wavelength measurement on the Ni-like soft X-ray lasing and its comparison to the atomic physics calculation	p. 433
X-ray free electron lasers based on high brilliance linacs	p. 436
Generation and applications of high-order harmonics: an alternative coherent short-pulse XUV source	p. 444
Spatial and temporal coherence measurements of harmonics of a 1053 nm, 2.5 ps laser interacting with solid surfaces	p. 452
Demonstration of laser-induced X-ray radiation in an expanding laser-produced plasma	p. 455
Electron synchrotron radiation generated by ultra-strong laser fields	p. 460
Attosecond X-ray pulse generation by relativistic frequency conversion	p. 463
Extending harmonic to X-ray region with a half-cycle delayed pulse	p. 466
High-order harmonic generation in a fully ionized plasma	p. 469
Liquid target for debris-free laser-plasma soft X-ray generation	p. 472
Laser based, intense, high rep.-rate X-ray source (1 keV-10 keV) from ns to sub-ps	p. 475
The simulation of a high-brightness, hard X-ray source based on interaction of ultra-short laser pulses with a high-Z target	p. 480
Mixed electron-nuclear transitions in multiply charged ions: potentialities for the X-[gamma] laser	p. 483
On the Coulomb excitation of even-even nuclei in the tens of keV region for possible [gamma]-lasing using free-electron channelling of powerful laser beams	p. 491
Application of soft X-ray lasers for probing high density plasmas	p. 496
Application of soft X-ray lasers interferometry to study large-scale-length, high-density plasmas	p. 504
Radiography measurements of direct drive imprint in tin A1 foils using a bright XUV laser	p. 509
Review of X-ray nonlinear optics	p. 512
Application of X-ray laser to photoelectron microspectroscopy	p. 520
UV luminescence of CsI excited by an X-ray laser	p. 528
Possible applications of X-ray lasers in biology: X-ray microscopy and X-ray lasers	p. 533
Propagation of laser-produced short X-ray pulses through scattering media: application to scatter-reduced medical imaging	p. 539
Author index	p. 543
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