Generation and pulsewidth characterization of high repetition rate soft x-ray lasers operating at 13.2 nm and 13.9 nm

WANG, Y.; MIGUEL ANTONIO LAROTONDA; BERRILL, M; LUTHER, B. M.; ALESSI, D.; ROCCA, J. J.; SHAKYA, M. M.; GILBERTSON, S.; CHANG, Z.; SHLYAPTSEV, V. N.

Montreal

Congreso; 19th Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS); 2006

IEEE Laser and Electro Optical Society

We have demonstrated saturated lasing at 13.2 nm and 13.9 nm in Ni-like ions at a repetition rate of 5 Hz using a table-top pump laser. Streak camera pulse width measurement shows that Ni-like Cd transient lasers excited at grazing incidence have pulse durations of ~5 ps, corresponding to laser peak powers of 0.1-0.2 MW. Intense picosecond duration laser pulses in the 100 eV spectral region are available for the first time at high repetition rate for applications.