Title : 
Plasma diagnostics of optical-field ionized soft X-ray lasers
         
        
            Author : 
Nagata, Y. ; Midorikawa, K. ; Obara, M. ; Toyoda, K.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
RIKEN, Inst. of Phys. & Chem. Res., Saitama, Japan
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Summary form only given. In our scheme, singly ionized lithium ions produced by a ns-KrF laser pulse are further ionized to a fully stripped state by a sub-ps KrF laser pulse (0.5 ps, 50 mJ) at 1017  W/cm2. We obtained extremely cold electron temperature of less than 1 eV. However, the ATI mode predicted much higher average electron energy of 26 eV than that measured experimentally
         
        
            Keywords : 
X-ray lasers; excimer lasers; high-speed optical techniques; photoionisation; plasma diagnostics; plasma temperature; potassium compounds; 0.5 ps; 26 eV; 50 mJ; ATI mode; KrF; extremely cold electron temperature; fully stripped state; higher average electron energy; ns-KrF laser pulse; optical-field ionized soft X-ray lasers; plasma diagnostics; singly ionized lithium ions; soft X-ray excimer lasers; sub-ps KrF laser pulse; Chemical lasers; Electrons; Laser theory; Optical pulses; Plasma diagnostics; Plasma temperature; Plasma waves; Plasma x-ray sources; Pump lasers; X-ray lasers;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1995. 8th Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings, Volume 1., IEEE
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
San Francisco, CA
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
0-7803-2450-1
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/LEOS.1995.484889