title: Saturated amplification of a collisionally pumped optical-field-ionization soft X-ray laser at 41.8 nm.
abstract: We report the first saturated amplification of an optical-field-ionization soft x-ray laser. The amplifying medium is generated by focusing a circularly polarized 330-mJ, 35-fs, 10-Hz Ti:sapphire laser system in a few-mm cell filled with xenon. A gain of 67 cm(-1) on the 4d(9)5p-4d(9)5d transition at 41.8 nm in Pd-like xenon and a gain-length product of 15 have been inferred at saturation. This source delivers about 5 x 10(9) photons per pulse. The influence of the pumping energy and the laser polarization on the lasing output are also presented.
authors: Laboratoire d' Optique Appliquée, ENSTA/Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS UMR 7639, Palaiseau, France.
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