Table-top femtosecond soft X-ray laser by collisional ionization gating

A Depresseux, E Oliva, J Gautier, F Tissandier… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
The advent of X-ray free-electron lasers has granted researchers an unprecedented access
to the ultrafast dynamics of matter on the nanometre scale,,. Aside from being compact …

Spectra of hollow ions in an ultradense laser plasma

IY Skobelev, AY Faenov, AP Tat'yana… - Physics …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Experiments with an ultrahigh-contrast femtosecond laser have yielded a new type of X-ray
emission spectra with a complex structure consisting of resonance lines against the …

Mutual amplification of high-order harmonics in an optically dressed hydrogenlike plasma-based x-ray laser

IR Khairulin, VA Antonov, MY Ryabikin… - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
In a recent work [VA Antonov, KC Han, TR Akhmedzhanov, M. Scully, and O.
Kocharovskaya, Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 243903 (2019) 10.1103/PhysRevLett. 123.243903] a …

Temporal coherence and spectral linewidth of an injection-seeded transient collisional soft x-ray laser

LM Meng, D Alessi, O Guilbaud, Y Wang, M Berrill… - Optics …, 2011 - opg.optica.org
The temporal coherence of an injection-seeded transient 18.9 nm molybdenum soft x-ray
laser was measured using a wavefront division interferometer and compared to model …

Hydrodynamic study of plasma amplifiers for soft-x-ray lasers: A transition in hydrodynamic behavior for plasma columns with widths ranging from to 2 mm

E Oliva, P Zeitoun, P Velarde, M Fajardo, K Cassou… - Physical Review E …, 2010 - APS
Plasma-based seeded soft-x-ray lasers have the potential to generate high energy and
highly coherent short pulse beams. Due to their high density, plasmas created by the …

Towards subpicosecond pulses from solid target plasma based seeded soft X-ray laser

AK Pandey, I Papagiannouli, F Sanson, E Baynard… - Optics …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We investigate the coherence of plasma-based soft X-ray laser (XRL) for different conditions
that can alter the electron density in the gain region. We first measure the source temporal …

Cut-off scaling of high-harmonic generation driven by a femtosecond visible optical parametric amplifier

G Cirmi, CJ Lai, E Granados, SW Huang… - Journal of Physics B …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We studied high-harmonic generation (HHG) in Ar, Ne and He gas jets using a broadly
tunable, high-energy optical parametric amplifier (OPA) in the visible wavelength range. We …

Demonstration of a kHz-repetition-rate extreme ultraviolet laser at 41.8 nm

F Tissandier, L Jurkovičová, J Gautier, M Staněk… - Optics Letters, 2024 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate the operation of a plasma-based extreme ultraviolet (XUV) laser at a 1 kHz
repetition rate driven by infrared pump pulses of less than 20 mJ. The 41.8 nm laser pulses …

Observation of spectral gain narrowing in a high-order harmonic seeded soft-x-ray amplifier

F Tissandier, S Sebban, M Ribière, J Gautier… - Physical Review A …, 2010 - APS
We report an observation of spectral gain narrowing of a high-order harmonic amplified by a
soft-x-ray optical-field-ionized plasma. The temporal coherence and spectral linewidth of …

Three-dimensional Maxwell-Bloch calculation of the temporal profile of a seeded soft x-ray laser pulse

F Tissandier, S Sebban, J Gautier, P Zeitoun… - Applied Physics …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
We present three-dimensional modeling of amplification of a high-order harmonic seed by a
soft x-ray laser plasma. The time-dependent evolution of the x-ray signal is determined from …