Generation and pulsewidth characterization of high repetition rate soft x-ray lasers operating at 13.2 nm and 13.9 nm

Author

Wang, Y. ; Larotonda, M.A. ; Berrill, M. ; Luther, B.M. ; Alessi, D. ; Rocca, J.J. ; Shakya, M.M. ; Gilbertson, S. ; Chang, Z. ; Shlyaptsev, V.N.

Author_Institution

NSF Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Sci. & Technol., Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO

fYear

2006

fDate

Oct. 2006

Firstpage

951

Lastpage

952

Abstract

We have demonstrated saturated lasing at 13.2 nm and 13.9 nm in Ni-like ions at a repetition rate of 5 Hz using a table-top pump laser. Streak camera pulse width measurement shows that Ni-like Cd transient lasers excited at grazing incidence have pulse durations of ~5 ps, corresponding to laser peak powers of 0.1-0.2 MW. Intense picosecond duration laser pulses in the 100 eV spectral region are available for the first time at high repetition rate for applications

Keywords

X-ray lasers; X-ray optics; cadmium; ion lasers; laser beams; laser variables measurement; optical pumping; 0.1 to 0.2 MW; 100 eV; 13.2 nm; 13.9 nm; Cd; Ni-like Cd transient laser; Ni-like ions; grazing incidence; laser peak power; pulsewidth generation; saturated lasing; soft X-ray laser; streak camera pulse width measurement; table-top pump laser; Cameras; Character generation; Laser excitation; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Power lasers; Pulse measurements; Pump lasers; Space vector pulse width modulation; X-ray lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2006. LEOS 2006. 19th Annual Meeting of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Montreal, Que.

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9555-7

Electronic_ISBN

0-7803-9555-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2006.279182

Filename

4054504