Autori: Daniel Ursescu, Bernhard Zielbauer, Thomas Kuehl, Paul Neumayer, and Geoff Pert

Editorial: Phys. Rev. E, 75, p.R45401, 2007.

Rezumat:

The effects of the incidence angle of the main pump (MP) pulse in non-normal pumping geometry and the influence of the MP duration are investigated experimentally and theoretically for a transient collisionally pumped (TCE) x-ray laser in Ni-like Zr at 45° and 72° incidence angle on the target. The way they transfer to the x-ray laser output depends on the preplasma conditions, most notably on the average ionization distribution at the arrival of the MP. Moreover, contrary to previous grazing incidence pumping results, it is found that the shortest attainable MP maximizes the output. Modeling of the experimental results is performed with EHYBRID code. The results are important for scaling high repetition-rate non-normal incidence pumped lasers to sub-10 nm wavelengths.

Cuvinte cheie: x-ray lasers