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Review of the soft-X-ray laser research at CEL-V

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2009

D. Naccache
Affiliation:
Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Centre d'Etudes de Limeil-Valenton, 94195 Villeneuve St. Georges cedex, France
J-L. Bourgade
Affiliation:
Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Centre d'Etudes de Limeil-Valenton, 94195 Villeneuve St. Georges cedex, France
P. Combis
Affiliation:
Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Centre d'Etudes de Limeil-Valenton, 94195 Villeneuve St. Georges cedex, France
C. J. Keane
Affiliation:
Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Centre d'Etudes de Limeil-Valenton, 94195 Villeneuve St. Georges cedex, France
J-P. Le Breton
Affiliation:
Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Centre d'Etudes de Limeil-Valenton, 94195 Villeneuve St. Georges cedex, France
M. Louis-Jacquet
Affiliation:
Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Centre d'Etudes de Limeil-Valenton, 94195 Villeneuve St. Georges cedex, France
B. J. Macgowan
Affiliation:
Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Centre d'Etudes de Limeil-Valenton, 94195 Villeneuve St. Georges cedex, France
D. L. Matthews
Affiliation:
Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Centre d'Etudes de Limeil-Valenton, 94195 Villeneuve St. Georges cedex, France
J-P. Perrine
Affiliation:
Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Centre d'Etudes de Limeil-Valenton, 94195 Villeneuve St. Georges cedex, France
G. Thiell
Affiliation:
Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Centre d'Etudes de Limeil-Valenton, 94195 Villeneuve St. Georges cedex, France

Abstract

We present some significant results of collisional excitation X-ray laser experiments in plasmas produced by a laser. We studied the amplification in Ne- and Ni-like ions by varying both the nature and the thickness of targets, the irradiation, and the wavelength of the driving laser. Some potentially interesting scalings as a function of the atomic number of the lasing element are demonstrated in the Ne-like system. An order-of-magnitude increase in gain in the Ni-like experiments was determined.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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