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Published on: August 1, 2017
Dramatic enhancement of optical-field-ionization collisional-excitation x-ray lasing by an optically preformed plasma
1Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei 106, Taiwan.
Abstract:
Dramatic enhancement of optical-field-ionization collisional-excitation x-ray lasing is achieved by using an optically preformed plasma waveguide. With a 9-mm-long pure krypton plasma waveguide prepared by using the axicon-ignitor-heater scheme, lasing at 32.8 nm is enhanced by 400 folds relative to the case without the plasma waveguide. An output level of 8 x 10(10) photon/shot is reached at an energy conversion efficiency of 2 x 10(-6). The same method is used to achieve x-ray lasing in a gas jet for the high-threshold low-gain transition at 46.9 nm in neonlike argon.
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