Demonstration of soft x-ray lasing to ground state in Li III

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Korobkin, DV [1 ]
Nam, CH [1 ]
Suckewer, S [1 ]
Goltsov, A [1 ]
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[1] PXL INC,PRINCETON,NJ 08852
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.5206
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O4 [物理学];
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Soft x-ray lasing with a gain length GL approximate to 5.5 was demonstrated in hydrogenlike Li III at 13.5 nm (2-1 transition) in a 5 mm long LiF microcapillary using a 50 mJ, 250 fs UV laser beam at a 2 Hz repetition rate. The initial plasma was created in the 0.3 mm diameter microcapillary by a low power Nd/YAG laser. The strongly nonlinear increase of the 13.5 nm line intensity with increasing microcapillary length was compared with a linear increase of the Li III 11.4 nm (3-1 transition) line intensity.
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