Demonstration of a Circularly Polarized Plasma-Based Soft-X-Ray Laser

A. Depresseux; E. Oliva; J. Gautier; F. Tissandier; G. Lambert; B. Vodungbo; J. P. Goddet; A. Tafzi; J. Nejdl; M. Kozlova; G. Maynard; H. T. Kim; K. Ta Phuoc; A. Rousse; P. Zeitoun; S. Sebban

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.083901

Demonstration of a Circularly Polarized Plasma-Based Soft-X-Ray Laser

A. Depresseux
, E. Oliva
, J. Gautier
, F. Tissandier
, G. Lambert
, B. Vodungbo
, J. P. Goddet
, A. Tafzi
, J. Nejdl
, M. Kozlova
, G. Maynard
, H. T. Kim
, K. Ta Phuoc
, A. Rousse
, P. Zeitoun
, S. Sebban

Université Paris-Saclay
Laboratoire de Physique des Gaz et des Plasmas
Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology
Institute for Basic Science (IBS)

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Abstract

We report the first experimental demonstration of a laser-driven circularly polarized soft-x-ray laser chain. It has been achieved by seeding a 32.8 nm Kr ix plasma amplifier with a high-order harmonic beam, which has been circularly polarized using a four-reflector polarizer. Our measurements testify that the amplified radiation maintains the initial polarization of the seed pulse in good agreement with our Maxwell-Bloch modeling. The resulting fully circular soft-x-ray laser beam exhibits a Gaussian profile and yields about 10¹⁰ photons per shot, fulfilling the requirements for laboratory-scale photon-demanding application experiments.

Original language	English
Article number	083901
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	115
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.083901
Publication status	Published - 19 Aug 2015
Externally published	Yes

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Depresseux, A., Oliva, E., Gautier, J., Tissandier, F., Lambert, G., Vodungbo, B., Goddet, J. P., Tafzi, A., Nejdl, J., Kozlova, M., Maynard, G., Kim, H. T., Ta Phuoc, K., Rousse, A., Zeitoun, P., & Sebban, S. (2015). Demonstration of a Circularly Polarized Plasma-Based Soft-X-Ray Laser. Physical Review Letters, 115(8), Article 083901. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.083901

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