Saturated amplification of fs laser driven collisional soft X-ray lasers

Author

Sebban, S. ; Haroutunian, R. ; Balcou, Ph ; Grillon, G. ; Rousse, A. ; Kazamias, S. ; Hulin, D. ; Mocek, T. ; Rus, B. ; Ros, D. ; Klisnick, A. ; Carillon, A. ; Jamelot, G.

Author_Institution

Lab. d´´Opt. Appliquee, Ecole Polytech., Palaiseau, France

Volume

2

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

455

Abstract

Obtaining a reliable XUV laser operating in an optical field ionization scheme has long been sought by numerous groups, both in recombination and collisional schemes. We report a successful observation of lasing in Pd-like xenon at 41.8 nm. High photon flux is obtained with respect to what can be expected in that scheme, so that the results are consistent with the obtention of amplification saturation. Moreover, more recent results demonstrate a large amplification of the 4d-4p transition of Ni-like Kr at 31.2 nm

Keywords

X-ray lasers; field ionisation; krypton; optical harmonic generation; optical pumping; optical saturation; xenon; 31.2 nm; 41.8 nm; 4d-4p transition; Kr; Ni-like krypton; Pd-like xenon; XUV laser; Xe; absolute number of photons; cell length dependence; collisional soft X-ray lasers; femtosecond laser driven; high harmonics; incoherent plasma background; large amplification; optical field ionization scheme; output spectra; Atom optics; Gas lasers; Ionization; Laser theory; Laser transitions; Mirrors; Optical saturation; Spectroscopy; X-ray lasers; Xenon;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2001. LEOS 2001. The 14th Annual Meeting of the IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7105-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2001.968869

Filename

968869