X-Ray Lasers 2010: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on X-Ray Lasers, 30 May–4 June 2010, Gwangju, Korea

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Recent results and future plans for XRLs using the TARANIS laser facility....Pages 3-13
Source Development and Novel Applications of Laser-Driven Plasma X-ray Lasers in JAEA....Pages 15-24
Theoretical Study of Ni-like Ta XRL Driven by One 2ω Pulse with Duration of 100ps on Upgraded Shenguang II Facility....Pages 25-30
X-ray laser developments at PHELIX....Pages 31-38
LASERIX : an open facility for developments of EUV and soft X-ray lasers and applications.....Pages 39-46
Using the X-FEL as a source to investigate photo-pumped X-ray lasers....Pages 47-53
Front Matter....Pages 55-55
Demonstration of an all-diode pumped soft x-ray laser and other advances in table-top soft x-ray lasers....Pages 57-68
Saturated XUV lasing down to 8.85 nm using the grazing-incidence scheme....Pages 69-76
Double-pulse single-beam grazing-incidence pumping....Pages 77-81
Development and application of plasma-waveguide based soft x-ray lasers....Pages 83-92
Development of Silver Tape Target System for High Repetition X-ray Laser....Pages 93-98
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
Temporal coherence and spectral width of seeded and ASE XUV lasers....Pages 101-109
Wave perspective on high harmonics amplification in a high-gain medium with level degeneracy....Pages 111-120
Laser driven parametric amplification in the xuv and soft-x-ray spectral range....Pages 121-126
Characterization of a seeded optical-field ionized collisional soft x-ray laser....Pages 127-135
Optimization of soft x-ray amplifiers by tailoring plasma hydrodynamic....Pages 137-142
Measurement of the Temporal Coherence of a Seeded GRIP Transient Mo Soft X-ray Laser....Pages 143-148
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
Extreme Field Limits in the Ultra-Relativistic Interaction of Electromagnetic Waves with Plasmas....Pages 151-181
Generation of Coherent X-Ray Radiation with Relativistic Nonlinear Processes....Pages 183-193
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
Generation of Ultrashort Attosecond High-Harmonic Pulses from Chirp-compensated Ne Harmonics....Pages 197-202
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
An intense kHz and aberration-free two-colour high harmonic source for seeding FEL and XRL....Pages 203-208
Tuning of High-Order Harmonics for Soft X-Ray Laser Seeding....Pages 209-214
Generation of Small Band Width Coherent Extreme Ultraviolet Radiation and Its Application....Pages 215-220
Highly Directive High Harmonic Generation from Solid Target Plasma for Biomedical and Medicine Applications....Pages 221-230
High Harmonic Generation by using Laser-Ablation Two- Compounds Target Scheme....Pages 231-236
Front Matter....Pages 237-237
EUV-induced surface modification of polymers....Pages 239-244
Study on fundamental processes of laser welded metals observed with intense x-ray beams....Pages 245-255
XUV Radiation Emitted by Capillary Pinching Discharge....Pages 257-262
EUV radiation of pulse high-current proximity-wallstabilized discharges....Pages 263-268
Front Matter....Pages 269-269
Probing high energy density plasmas with X-ray lasers....Pages 271-279
Measuring the electron density gradients of dense plasmas by X-ray laser deflectometry....Pages 281-292
Laser-matter interaction studies using X-ray laser and double Lloyd’s mirror interferometer....Pages 293-300
Application of Laser Plasma X-ray Beam in Radiation Biology....Pages 301-306
Energy Spectra of Photo- and Auger Electrons Generated by a Soft X-Ray Laser and Xe Cluster Interaction....Pages 307-311
Observation of Phase Transition Dynamics in BaTiO 3 by X-ray Laser Speckle Technique....Pages 313-322
Single-Shot Nanometer-Scale Fourier Transform Hologram Using Ni-like Ag X-Ray Laser....Pages 323-328
Theory and computation towards coherent reflection imaging of tilted objects....Pages 329-340
Highly efficient soft X-ray microscope using a PMMA phase-reversal zone plate....Pages 341-346
Single-Photon Ionization Soft-X-Ray Laser Mass Spectrometry of Potential Hydrogen Storage Materials....Pages 347-352
Development of the x-ray interferometer and the method of spatial and temporal synchronization of XRL and optical pulse....Pages 353-358
Front Matter....Pages 269-269
Reflection microscope for actinic mask inspection and other progress in soft x-ray laser nano-imaging....Pages 359-370