Generation of millijoule-level soft X-ray laser pulses at 4 Hz repetition rate in a highly saturated table-top capillary discharge amplifier

Author

Rocca, J.J. ; Benware, B.R. ; Macchietto, C.D. ; Shlyaptsev, V.N.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

49

Abstract

We report the first demonstration of millijoule-level pulses and milliwatt average power from a table-top soft X-ray laser. Laser pulses with energy up to 1 mJ were generated at a wavelength of 46.9 nm by single pass amplification in a 34.5 cm long Ne-like Ar capillary discharge plasma. The large gain-length product of this plasma column allows for soft X-ray amplification in a highly saturated regime, resulting in very efficient energy extraction

Keywords

X-ray lasers; argon; ion lasers; isoelectronic series; optical saturation; plasma production by laser; 1 mJ; 46.9 nm; Ar; Ar⁺ Ne-like soft X-ray lasers; Ne-like Ar capillary discharge plasma; highly saturated regime; highly saturated table-top capillary discharge amplifier; large gain-length product; laser pulses; millijoule-level soft X-ray laser pulses; milliwatt average power; plasma column; single pass amplification; table-top soft X-ray laser; very efficient energy extraction; Gas lasers; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Plasma measurements; Power lasers; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse measurements; Pump lasers; Space vector pulse width modulation; X-ray lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

LEOS '99. IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society 1999 12th Annual Meeting

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5634-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.1999.813470

Filename

813470