@inproceedings{e8f300b2114541d7a8ba73c3e8261a45,
title = "Modeling of dense injection-seeded Ni-like Krypton plasma amplifiers",
abstract = "One promising way to reach ultra-short soft X-ray lasers is to guide an intense infrared pulse through a plasma channel generated in a high pressure gas. However, in such a case, strong non-linear effects, as overionizationinduced refraction and self-focusing, hinder the propagation of the laser beam and thus the creation of the lasing ion and the population inversion. Using a particle-in-cell (PIC) code and a ray-tracing model, we demonstrate that a stable self-regulation mechanism between self-focusing and overionization appears, which enables guiding the infrared beam over several milimetres, well beyond the saturation length for amplification of the soft X-ray laser.",
keywords = "Maxwell-Bloch, Particle-in-cell, Plasma based seeded soft X-ray lasers, Plasma physics, Ray-tracing",
author = "Eduardo Oliva and Adrien Depresseux and Fabien Tissandier and Julien Gautier and St{\'e}phane Sebban and Gilles Maynard",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2015 SPIE.; X-Ray Lasers and Coherent X-Ray Sources: Development and Applications XI Conference ; Conference date: 12-08-2015 Through 13-08-2015",
year = "2015",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1117/12.2187034",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
publisher = "SPIE",
editor = "Annie Klisnick and Menoni, \{Carmen S.\}",
booktitle = "X-Ray Lasers and Coherent X-Ray Sources",
}