X-Ray Lasers 2014: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on X-Ray Lasers

Front Matter....Pages i-xxxix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Progress and Prospects of Coherent X-Ray Research Using High Power Lasers in Japan Atomic Energy Agency....Pages 3-10
Advances in High Average Power, 100 Hz Repetition Rate Table-Top Soft X-Ray Lasers....Pages 11-19
Possibility of Recombination Gain Increase in CV Ions at 4.0 nm Via Coherence....Pages 21-33
Overview of Development of Laser Driven Secondary Sources at PALS and ELI....Pages 35-43
Spectral Properties of Collisional Xuv Lasers for the Amplification of Femtosecond Pulses....Pages 45-52
Transient Collisionally Excited X-ray Lasers Pumped with One Long and Two Short Pulses....Pages 53-59
Seeded Operation of a Ne-like Titanium Soft X-Ray Laser....Pages 61-67
Output Beam Polarisation of X-ray Lasers with Transient Inversion....Pages 69-75
Improved Sub-10 nm Ni-like Lasing by Varying the Slope of the Traveling-Wave Velocity....Pages 77-82
Temporal Response of Seeded XUV Lasers Under Different Amplification Regimes—Inversion Density Threshold....Pages 83-88
Self-Photopumped X-Ray Lasers from Elements in the Ne-like and Ni-like Ionization State....Pages 89-93
Pump-Probe Experiment for Temporal Profile Measurement of Plasma X-Ray Laser....Pages 95-101
Capillary Discharge X-Ray Lasers: The Quest for Sub-10 nm Lasers....Pages 103-112
Front Matter....Pages 113-113
Progress report on an experiment to clarify collimated x-ray emission in Karabut’s experiment....Pages 115-120
Isolation of Coherent Synchrotron Emission During Relativistic Laser Plasma Interactions....Pages 121-126
Polarization Gating in Relativistic Laser-Solid Interactions....Pages 127-132
Progress and Prospects of a Compton X-ray Source Driven by a High-Power CO2 Laser....Pages 133-138
X-ray Generation From Ultra-High Energy Density Relativistic Plasmas by Ultrafast Laser Irradiation of Nanowire Arrays....Pages 139-145
Ionization of Xenon to the Nickel-Like Stage and Beyond in Micro-Capillary Plasma Columns Heated by Ultrafast Current Pulses....Pages 147-153
Progress of Laser-Driven Betatron Radiation in IOP....Pages 155-163
Front Matter....Pages 113-113
A New Approach to Theory for the Rhodes Group Experiments with Channeled Pulse Excitation in Xe and Kr Clusters....Pages 165-169
Front Matter....Pages 171-171
Attosecond Dynamics of Parametric Amplification at 11 nm....Pages 173-178
Coherent Soft-X-Ray Pulses at Multi MHz Repetition Rates Using Enhancement Cavities....Pages 179-186
Generation of Bright Circularly-Polarized High Harmonics for Magneto-Optical Investigations....Pages 187-192
Electron Motion Control in HHG Process with Multi-Color Laser Field....Pages 193-198
Front Matter....Pages 199-199
Stimulated X-Ray Raman Scattering with Free-Electron Laser Sources....Pages 201-207
Comparing the Gain of the Ne K-α  Inner-Shell X-Ray Laser Using the XFEL to Drive the Kinetics with Photo-Ionization Versus Photo-Excitation....Pages 209-215
Front Matter....Pages 217-217
Reflection Mode Imaging with Extreme-Ultraviolet Light from a High Harmonic Source....Pages 219-223
Volumetric Composition Imaging at the Nanoscale by Soft X-Ray Laser Ablation Mass Spectrometry....Pages 225-231
Time-Resolved Holography with a Table Top Soft X-Ray Laser....Pages 233-238
X-Ray Holography for Imaging Large Specimen with a Ag X-Ray Laser....Pages 239-244
Development of X-Ray Sources Using Intense Laser Pulses and Their Applications to X-Ray Microscopy....Pages 245-251
Keyhole Reflection-Mode Coherent Diffractive Imaging of Nano-Patterned Surfaces Using a Tabletop EUV Source....Pages 253-257
Nanoscale Imaging with Soft X-Ray Lasers....Pages 259-265
Nanoscale Imaging Using Coherent and Incoherent Laboratory Based Soft X-Ray Sources....Pages 267-273
Coherent Diffractive Imaging with a Laboratory-Scale, Gas-Discharge Plasma Extreme Ultraviolet Light Source....Pages 275-280
On the Optical Transforms in the Fourier Space for Simulation of Coherent Imaging of Tilted Objects....Pages 281-289
Front Matter....Pages 291-291
EUV Research at Berkeley Lab: Enabling Technologies and Applications....Pages 293-300
Table Top Soft X-ray Laser Used for Fabrication of Periodic Nanostructures....Pages 301-306
Applications for Coherent Narrow-Band Sources in EUV Lithography....Pages 307-312
Front Matter....Pages 291-291
Lensless Proximity EUV Lithography with a Xenon Gas Discharge Plasma Radiation....Pages 313-319
Front Matter....Pages 321-321
Wave Front Study of Fully Coherent Soft X-Ray Laser Using Hartmann Sensor....Pages 323-329
Recent Advances in Multilayer Reflective Optics for EUV/X-Ray Sources....Pages 331-337
Spectral and Coherence Properties of the Ne-like Zn X-Ray Laser at PALS....Pages 339-343
On Stability of Exact Transparent Boundary Condition for the Parabolic Equation in Rectangular Computational Domain....Pages 345-349
Gain Dynamics in Injection-Seeded Soft X-Ray Laser Plasma Amplifiers....Pages 351-356
Front Matter....Pages 357-357
Application of Soft X-Ray Lasers to Neutral Cluster Chemistry....Pages 359-367
Application of Laser Plasma Sources of Soft X-rays and Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) in Imaging, Processing Materials and Photoionization Studies....Pages 369-377
Rapid Calculation of Scattering Factors for Partially Ionized Plasmas in the EUV....Pages 379-384
Transmission Measurement for Highly Transparent Metallic Sodium in the Extreme Ultraviolet Spectral Range: New Application of an Intense EUV Sources....Pages 385-390
Opacity Bleaching by Extreme Ultraviolet Radiation Incident on Solid Density Targets....Pages 391-395
Ablation Plume Induced by Laser Euv Radiation....Pages 397-403
Study of Optical Emission During Spallative Ablation Induced by Soft X-Ray Laser Pulses....Pages 405-409
Diagnosis of Radiation Heating in Iron Buried Layer Targets....Pages 411-416