X-Ray Lasers 2012 (eBook)

Stéphane Sebban Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquée ENSTA Chemin de la hunière F-91761 Palaiseau Cedex France Julien Gautier Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquée ENSTA Chemin de la hunière F-91761 Palaiseau Cedex France David Ross LPGP, bat. 210 Université Paris-Sud 91405 Orsay France  Philippe Zeitoun Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquée ENSTA Chemin de la hunière F-91761 Palaiseau Cedex France

Coherent Pulses from a Seeded Free-Electron Laser in the Extreme Ultraviolet.- Enhancement of Efficiency of XUV Generation in Atomic Gases Irradiated by Intense Laser Fields.- Optical Transforms Related to Coherent Imaging of Inclined Objects.- Soft-X-Ray Lasing Down to 6.85 nm in Ni-like Samarium.- The LUNEX5 Project in France.- Real-Time Observation of Laser Heated Metals with High Brightness Monochromatic X-Ray Techniques at Present and Their Future Prospects.- Generation and Application of Coherent Radiation in the Water Window.- Regenerative Laser Cavity Tuning for Efficient Soft-X-Ray Laser Operation.- X-Ray Laser Developments at PHELIX.- Parabolic Equation and Exact Transparent Boundary Conditions in X-Ray Optics - Application to Waveguides and Whispering Gallery Optics.- Observation of the Laser-Induced Surface Dynamics Using the Single-Shot Soft X-Ray Laser Probe.- Nano-meter Size Modification of Metal Surfaces Induced by Soft X-Ray Laser Single Pulse.- Speckle Statistics, Coherence and Polarization of a Collisional Soft X-Ray Laser.- Upscaling of X-Ray Laser Repetition Rate Using an OPCPA Architecture.- Source Development of Novel Coherent X-Rays and Their Applications in JAEA.- Characterization of Zn X-Ray Laser at PALS Centre, Its Applications in Dense Plasma Probing and Astrophysics.- Time Resolved Holography Scheme Using a Table Top Soft X-Ray Laser.- Temporal Coherence and Spectral Linewidth of Neon-like XUV Lasers Pumped in the Quasi-Steady State Regime.- Spectral Broadening of Ni-like XUV Laser Lines.- Visualization of Rapid Dynamic Interactions by Flash Soft X-Ray Microscopy.- Using the X-FEL to Understand X-Ray Thomson Scattering for Partially Ionized Plasmas.- Development of Soft X-Ray Microscopy Using Fresnel Zone Plate for Observation of Laser-Induced Surface Dynamics.- Harmonic Generation in Argon by Femtosecond.- Demonstration of a 100 Hz Repetition Rate Soft X-Ray Laser and Gain-Saturated Sub-10nm Table-Top Lasers.- Repetitive XUV Discharge-Pumped Laser at 46.9 nm.- Line-Focus Generation for X-Ray Laser Pumping.- Spectral Linewidth Measurement of a Ne-like Ar Capillary Discharge Soft X-Ray Laser.- Defect Talbot Nanopatterning.- Imaging in Nanoscale Using Laser-Plasma Sources of Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV).- Experiments to Diagnose Plasma with a Soft X-Ray Laser Double-Frequency Grating Interferometry.- Development of High Reflective Multilayer Mirrors at "Water Window" Wavelengths in IPOE.- Heavy-Ion Spectroscopy with X-Ray Lasers at GSI.