Generation of a 1 picosecond soft x-ray laser pulses from an injection-seeded plasma amplifier

Author

Wang, Y. ; Berrill, M. ; Pedaci, F. ; Shakya, M.M. ; Gilbertson, S. ; Chang, Zenghu ; Granados, E. ; Luther, B.M. ; Larotonda, M.A. ; Alessi, D. ; Rocca, J.J.

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2009

fDate

2-4 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

Phase-coherent soft x-ray laser pulses of 1.13 plusmn 0.47 ps duration were generated by injection-seeding a solid-target Ne-like Ti plasma amplifier with high harmonic pulses. This is the shortest pulse duration reported to date from a table-top soft x-ray laser amplifier.

Keywords

X-ray lasers; optical harmonic generation; optical pulse generation; Ti; harmonic pulses; injection-seeding; phase-coherent soft X-ray laser pulses; picosecond soft X-ray laser pulse generation; pulse duration; solid-target plasma amplifier; table-top soft X-ray laser amplifier; time 1.13 ps; Cameras; Gas lasers; Optical amplifiers; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Plasma measurements; Plasma x-ray sources; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse measurements; X-ray lasers; (140.7240) UV, EUV, and X-ray lasers; (340.7480) X-rays, soft x-rays, extreme ultraviolet (EUV);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009 and 2009 Conference on Quantum electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2009. Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-869-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-869-8

Type

conf

Filename

5226137