Advances in high repetition rate table-top soft x-ray lasers

J. J. Rocca, Y. Wang, D. Alessi, B. A. Reagan, B. M. Luther, A. H. Curtis, K. Wernsing, F. Furch, M. R. Woolston, D. H. Martz, V. N. Shlyaptsev, M. Berrill

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Abstract

We discuss recent advances in the development of high repetition rate table-soft soft x-ray lasers resulting from research conducted at Colorado State University. Advancing saturated table-top lasers to shorter wavelengths we report the operation of gain-saturated sub-10 nm table-top lasers at 1 Hz repetition rate. We also present experimental results that show that injection-seeding of solid-target soft x-ray plasma amplifiers reduces the far field divergence by an order of magnitude and to allow for control of the far-field beam characteristics by tailoring the divergence of the seed. We finally discuss progress towards the development of high repetition rate compact all-diode-pumped soft x-ray lasers. We have operated the front end of the diode-pumped soft-ray laser driver at 100Hz repetition rate, obtaining sub-5 ps optical laser pulses of 100 mJ energy.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationX-Ray Lasers and Coherent X-Ray Sources
Subtitle of host publicationDevelopment and Applications IX
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Externally publishedYes
EventX-Ray Lasers and Coherent X-Ray Sources: Development and Applications IX - San Diego, CA, United States
Duration: Aug 23 2011Aug 25 2011

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume8140
ISSN (Print)0277-786X

Conference

ConferenceX-Ray Lasers and Coherent X-Ray Sources: Development and Applications IX
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Diego, CA
Period08/23/1108/25/11

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