Experimental demonstration of a collinear triple pulse grazing-incidence pumping scheme for a transient collisional pumped x-ray laser

S. Künzel, G. V. Cojocaru, F. Gärtner, B. Aurand, L. Li, D. Ursescu, Ph Zeitoun, E. Oliva, B. Zielbauer, T. Kuehl, M. Fajardo

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Abstract

We present a nickel-like Molybdenum x-ray laser (XRL) based on the transient collisional excitation scheme. Extending the double grazing-incidence pumping scheme to a triple pulse scheme with a nanosecond pre-pulse and two consecutive 3 ps pulses the output power of the XRL can be ∼6 times increased compared to existing configurations, while using a relatively low total pump energy of 0.7 J. Additionally we show that this setup can be extended to a double stage, oscillator and amplifier stage, XRL.

Original languageEnglish
Article number215601
JournalJournal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
Volume49
Issue number21
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 10 Oct 2016

Keywords

  • EUV
  • soft x-rays
  • x-ray lasers

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