Published December 2003 | Version v1
Journal article

Demonstration of a soft-x-ray laser at 13.9 nm with full spatial coherence

  • 1. Advanced Photon Research Center, Kansai Research Establishment, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, 8-1 Umemidai, Kizu, Kyoto 619-0215 (Japan)

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We have demonstrated the generation of a highly coherent x-ray laser at 13.9 nm by an oscillator-amplifier configuration with two targets. In the oscillator-amplifier configuration, a seed x-ray laser beam from one target is injected into a plasma amplifier at another target. When the propagation of the x-ray laser beam is not affected by refraction in the amplifier, a highly coherent x-ray laser beam with small divergence of 0.2 mrad is generated. The observed divergence is close to the diffraction limited value, and this beam has full spatial coherence

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Journal Title
Physical Review. A
Journal Volume
68
Journal Issue
6
Journal Page Range
p. 061802-061802.4
ISSN
1050-2947
CODEN
PLRAAN

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