Gain-saturated 10.9 nm tabletop laser operating at 1 Hz repetition rate.
We report the demonstration of a gain-saturated 10.9 nm tabletop soft x-ray laser operating at 1 Hz repetition rate. Lasing occurs by collisional electron impact excitation in the 4dS01-->4pP11 transition of nickel-like Te in a line-focus plasma heated by a chirped-pulse-amplification Ti:sapphire laser. With an average power of 1muW and pulse energy up to approximately 2microJ, this laser extends the ability to conduct tabletop laser experiments to a shorter wavelength.
Alessi
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National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Science and Technology,Colorado State University, Fort Collins 80523, Colorado, USA. dalessi@engr.colostate.edu
Martz
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Wang
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Berrill
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Luther
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Rocca
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