Laser-driven plasma sources of femtosecond hard X-ray pulses have found widespread
application in ultrafast X-ray diffraction. The recent development of plasma sources working …

We demonstrate a concept for short x-ray generation at 1 kHz repetition rate from a thin-foil
target in a very compact configuration, which allows one, essentially, to decrease the …

We report an efficient Cu K α x-ray source produced by focusing submillijoule, 120 fs Ti:
sapphire laser pulses on a solid copper target to a spot diameter of few microns. The …

A plasma source free from characteristic emission lines is described, based on laser
irradiation of a water jet in a helium atmosphere. Various key aspects of the laser interaction …

We report the development of a stable high-average power X-ray source generated by the
interaction of ultrashort laser pulses (35 fs, 1 mJ, 1 kHz) with a solid target in air. The …

Optical spectroscopy, and in particular laser spectroscopy, provides numerous possibilities
for advanced diagnostics and multi-spectral imaging with real-time capability. We describe …

Interaction of relativistic intensity laser pulses encompassed at focus by a volume of a few
wavelengths cubed with solids is examined. Spectroscopy of hard X-rays of several metallic …

The interaction of ultrashort laser pulses with solid state targets is studied concerning the
production of short X-ray pulses with photon energies up to about 10 keV. The influence of …

We present a detailed investigation of X-ray emission from both flat and nanowire zinc oxide
targets irradiated by 60 fs 5× 1016 W/cm2 intensity laser pulses at a 0.8 µm wavelength. It is …

An overview of applied laser-based diagnostics as pursued at the Division of Atomic
Physics, Lund University, is given. The fields of application range from environmental …