Table-top x-ray lasers using a plasma gain-medium: limits and potentials
Abstract
The amplification of short-wavelength radiation is advantageously done across a laser-produced plasma medium. The main advantages of this scheme are the ultra-narrow linewidth (λ /Δ λ ≥slant 10,000), the full temporal coherence, and the compact footprint that fits on a table-top. These figures-of-merit are complementary to those of short-wavelength beamtime-limited sources, which retain their interest for proof-of-principle research.
- Publication:
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Physica Scripta Volume T
- Pub Date:
- September 2014
- DOI:
- 10.1088/0031-8949/2014/T162/014050
- Bibcode:
- 2014PhST..162a4050B