TY - GEN
T1 - Dense plasma physics studied with xfels
AU - Meyer-ter-Vehn, J.
AU - Krenz, A.
AU - Lan, Ke
AU - Eidmann, K.
AU - Fill, E.
AU - Rosmej, F.
AU - Schlegel, Th
AU - Sokolowski-Tinten, K.
AU - Von Der Linde, D.
AU - Tschentscher, Th
PY - 2004/12/1
Y1 - 2004/12/1
N2 - We discuss simple experimental configurations related to hot dense matter physics and plasma soft X-ray lasers that can be studied with beams of the TESLA XFEL and the TESLA Test Facility (TTF2) at DESY/Hamburg. According to present planning, TTF2 will become operational in 2005 and will provide 100 fs pulses containing up to 1014 photons with energies in the range of 20 - 200 eV. When focussed to spots of 1 μm diameter, the pulses will reach intensities up to 1018 W/cm2 and generate thin layers of solid-density plasma with temperatures up to 1 keVand Gbar pressures. In addition to target heating, scattered photons will provide detailed information on the structure of the generated plasma. This offers new possibilities to study equations of state (EOS) and opacities over a wide range of the phase diagrams for various materials. During the 100 fs interaction time, the target material will be in an extreme state of non-equilibrium. Here we present theoretical investigations showing that the TTF2 pulses can be used as pumps to demonstrate He-α laser schemes for the first time, using helium gas as the target material.
AB - We discuss simple experimental configurations related to hot dense matter physics and plasma soft X-ray lasers that can be studied with beams of the TESLA XFEL and the TESLA Test Facility (TTF2) at DESY/Hamburg. According to present planning, TTF2 will become operational in 2005 and will provide 100 fs pulses containing up to 1014 photons with energies in the range of 20 - 200 eV. When focussed to spots of 1 μm diameter, the pulses will reach intensities up to 1018 W/cm2 and generate thin layers of solid-density plasma with temperatures up to 1 keVand Gbar pressures. In addition to target heating, scattered photons will provide detailed information on the structure of the generated plasma. This offers new possibilities to study equations of state (EOS) and opacities over a wide range of the phase diagrams for various materials. During the 100 fs interaction time, the target material will be in an extreme state of non-equilibrium. Here we present theoretical investigations showing that the TTF2 pulses can be used as pumps to demonstrate He-α laser schemes for the first time, using helium gas as the target material.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/19944433962
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:19944433962
SN - 0894486861
SN - 9780894486869
T3 - Inertial Fusion Sciences and Applications 2003
SP - 912
EP - 916
BT - Inertial Fusion Sciences and Applications 2003
A2 - Hammel, B.A.
A2 - Meyerhofer, D.D.
A2 - Meyer-ter-Vehn, J.
T2 - Third International Conference on Inertial Fusion Sciences and Applications, IFSA 2003
Y2 - 7 September 2003 through 12 September 2003
ER -