title: Saturated 13.2 nm high-repetition-rate laser in nickellike cadmium.
abstract: We report gain-saturated operation of a 13.2 nm table-top laser in Ni-like Cd at a 5 Hz repetition rate. A gain-length product G x L = 17.6 was obtained by heating a precreated plasma with 8 ps duration Ti:sapphire laser pulses with an energy of only 1 J impinging at a grazing angle of 23 degrees. With an average power of approximately 1 muW [corrected] this laser is an attractive coherent source for at-wavelength metrology of extreme UV lithography optics and other applications.
authors.affiliation: National Science Foundation ERC for Extreme Ultraviolet Science and Technology, and Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA.
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Rocca
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Larotonda
authors.forename: B M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Luther
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Berrill
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Alessi