Suprathermal electron pumping of X-ray lasers
Abstract
Very high flux densities of suprathermal electrons with energies up to several hundred keV, can be produced by focusing high power laser beams to small spots on solid surfaces. If these suprathermal electrons can be confined in a sufficiently small volume, they can produce significant 3p to 3s and 4 to 3 population inversions in highly stripped medium Z ions.
- Publication:
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Lasers 1981
- Pub Date:
- 1982
- Bibcode:
- 1982lase.conf..173C
- Keywords:
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- Electron Flux Density;
- Electron Pumping;
- High Power Lasers;
- Population Inversion;
- X Ray Lasers;
- Electron Energy;
- Electron Transitions;
- Focusing;
- Laser Plasmas;
- Lasing;
- Lasers and Masers