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A traveling wave approach to plasma pumping for X-ray sources

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2009

Reed J. Jensen
Affiliation:
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Abstract

Progress in high-brightness excimer lasers and in optical angular multiplexing of excimer lasers presents an opportunity to provide very intense pumping of X-ray sources, both in favorable geometry and in traveling waves, all at low cost. The traveling-wave strategy can be tailored to the parameters of the system to be pumped. This design option can be of great importance for systems lasing at wavelengths in the kilovolt regime where upper level lifetimes are short, and where mirror technology is presently tenuous. Features of several design strategies are explored.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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