X-Ray Lasers 2008: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on X-Ray Lasers, 17-22 August 2008, Belfast, UK (Springer Proceedings in Physics)

Contents......Page 8
Part 1 – Progress in X-Ray Laser Facilities and Infrastructures......Page 17
Recent Progress in X-Ray Laser Research in JAEA......Page 19
Recent Advances on LASERIX Facility: Development of XUV Sources System and Applications. Perspectives from 2008 to 2010......Page 29
Recent Progress in Grazing-Incidence-Pumped X-Ray Lasers at Uni-BE......Page 39
Review on Recent High Intensity Physics Experiments Relevant to X-Ray and Quantum Beam Generation at JAEA......Page 49
Towards an 100 Hz X-Ray Laser Station......Page 59
Versatile High-Energy and Short-Pulse Operation of PHELIX......Page 69
Central Laser Facility High Power Laser Capabilities Applied to X-Ray Laser Science......Page 75
TARANIS: A Pump Source for X-Ray Lasers......Page 81
Photon Frontier Network......Page 87
Part 2 – Transient Collisional X-Ray Lasers......Page 95
Grazing Incidence Pumping (GRIP): Single- vs. Double-Pulse Arrangement......Page 97
An Improved Double-Pulse Non-Normal Incidence Pumping Geometry for Transient Collisionally Excited Soft X-Ray Lasers......Page 107
Generation of the Circularly Polarized X-Ray Laser Using the Pulse-Power Magnet......Page 115
Gain Saturation of the Ni-like Antimony Laser at 11.4 nm in Grazing-Incidence Pumping Geometry......Page 123
Temporal Coherence and Spectral Line Shape of a GRIP Transient X-Ray Laser......Page 131
Part 3 – High Repetition Rate X-Ray Lasers......Page 139
High Coherence Injection-Seeded Table-Top Soft X-Ray Lasers at Wavelengths Down to 13.2 nm......Page 141
Characterization of a Seeded Optical-Field Ionized Collisional Soft X-Ray Laser......Page 151
Investigation on the Spatial Properties of Silver X-Ray Laser Using GRIP Schemes......Page 159
Spatial Filtering of High Order Harmonics by an OFI Plasma Amplifier......Page 169
New Driver Laser System for Double Target X-Ray Lasers at JAEA......Page 177
Part 4 – Optical-Field-Ionised (OFI) X-Ray Lasers......Page 183
Toward Ultraintense Compact RBS Pump for Recombination 3.4 nm Laser via OFI......Page 185
High Brightness Optical-Field-Ionization X-Ray Lasers Driven in Plasma Waveguides......Page 199
Temporal Coherence and Spectral Linewidth of a Seeded Soft X-Ray Laser Pulse......Page 209
Part 5 – Theory and Simulations......Page 215
The Scaling of Recombination Following Tunnel Ionisation and its Suitability for Generating X-Ray Laser Gain......Page 217
Advances in Understanding the Anomalous Dispersion of Plasmas in the X-Ray Regime......Page 227
Recent Developments on Seeded or Unseeded Transient X-Ray Lasers......Page 237
Influence of the number of atomic levels on the modelling of collisional X-ray lasers......Page 247
Modelling of Capillary Z-Pinch Recombination Pumping of Hydrogen- Like Ion EUV Lasers......Page 255
Propagation of a High-Harmonic Pulse Through a Population-Inverted Medium......Page 263
Modeling of an Ultra-Short X-Ray Laser Pulse Amplification Through an Optical-Field-Ionized Gas Using a Maxwell-Bloch Treatment......Page 271
Effects of Inhomogeneous Incident Line Focus on 2D Hydrodynamic Behaviour of X-Ray Laser Plasma on Slab......Page 279
Excitation Rates for Transitions in Ne-Like Ni XIX......Page 287
Conversion Efficiency Calculations for Soft X-Rays Emitted from Tin Plasma for Lithography Applications......Page 297
Theoretical Investigation of Photo-pumping X-Ray Lasers Using Kα Line from Solid Target......Page 305
Part 6 – High Harmonic Generation (HHG)......Page 313
Coherent Water-Window X-Ray Generation by Phase-Matched High Harmonics in Neutral Media......Page 315
Relativisitically Oscillating Mirrors – an Ultrabright Attosecond Source......Page 323
Spectral Characteristics of Strong High-Harmonics Generated in a Two-Color Laser Field......Page 331
Diffraction Limited Harmonic Emission from Laser Produced Plasmas......Page 339
Part 7 – XUV Optics and Applications of X-Ray Lasers......Page 345
X-Ray Lasers as Probes of Plasma Parameters......Page 347
Advances in Nanoscale Resolution Soft X-Ray Laser Microscopy......Page 357
Experimental Diagnosis of Plasma Jets by Using X-Ray Laser......Page 365
Soft X-Ray Holography with Wavelength Resolution......Page 373
Ablation Measurements Using Ni-Like Ag X-Ray Laser Transmission......Page 381
High Sensitive Characterization of Microdomain Structures in PZN-PT (91/09) by Means of Coherent Soft X-Ray Laser Speckle......Page 389
Warm Photoionized Plasmas Created by Soft X-Ray Laser Irradiation of Solid Targets......Page 397
Development of Multilayer Optics in EUV, Soft X-Ray and X-Ray Range at IPOE......Page 407
Highly Efficient Surface Modification of Solids by Dual Action of XUV/Vis-NIR Laser Pulses......Page 417
Strand Breaks in DNA Samples Induced with LASERIX......Page 425
High Resolution X-Ray Laser Backlighting of Plasmas Using Spatial Filtering Technique......Page 433
Development of Soft X-Ray Fourier Transform Holography with Fresnel Zone Plate......Page 443
Lensless Imaging Using Table-Top Soft X-Ray Lasers and High Harmonics Sources Reaching 70 nm Resolution......Page 449
Gas Phase Study of The Reactivity of Optical Coating Materials with Hydrocarbons Using a Compact Soft X-Ray Laser......Page 455
Gas Phase Studies of Catalytic Processes Involving V[sub(m)]o[sub(n)] Clusters and their Reaction with Alcohols, Alkenes, No[sub(x)], and Nh[sub(3)] Using a Desk-Top Size Soft X-Ray Laser......Page 461
Time-of-Flight Measurements of Ion and Electron from Xenon Clusters Irradiated with a Soft X-Ray Laser Pulse......Page 469
Calibration of a High Resolution Soft X-Ray Spectrometer......Page 477
XUV Probing as a Diagnostic of Rayleigh-Taylor Instability Growth......Page 485
Line Focus Geometry for Grazing Incidence Pumped X-Ray Lasers......Page 491
Resolution and Feature Size Assessment in Soft X-Ray Microscopy Images......Page 499
An Approach to the Generation of Uniform Line Foci for Use in X-Ray Laser Experiments......Page 505
Interferometric Lithography with a Desk-Top Size Soft X-Ray Laser......Page 511
Time-Resolved Fluorescence Spectrum of Wide-Gap Semiconductors Excited by 13.9 nm X-Ray Laser......Page 517
Part 8 – Alternative Approaches for Sources of Bright X-Rays......Page 523
Application of Extremely Bright and Coherent Soft and Hard X-Ray Free-Electron Laser Radiation......Page 525
Design Study of Compact Thomson X-Ray Sources for Material and Life Sciences Applications......Page 537
An Attempt to Generate an Inner-Shell Photo-Ionisation Pumped X-Ray Laser Using the ASTRA Laser at RAL......Page 553
Electron Self-Injection and Radiation in the Laser Plasma Accelerator......Page 559
Emission Spectroscopy from an XUV Laser Irradiated Solid Target......Page 565
Innershell X-Ray Laser in Sodium Vapor: Final Steps Towards Experimental Verification......Page 573