Table-top femtosecond soft X-ray laser by collisional ionization gating

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作者
Depresseux, A. [1 ]
Oliva, E. [2 ]
Gautier, J. [1 ]
Tissandier, F. [1 ]
Nejdl, J. [3 ]
Kozlova, M. [3 ]
Maynard, G. [2 ]
Goddet, J. P. [1 ]
Tafzi, A. [1 ]
Lifschitz, A. [1 ]
Kim, H. T. [4 ,5 ]
Jacquemot, S. [6 ,7 ]
Malka, V. [1 ]
Phuoc, K. Ta [1 ]
Thaury, C. [1 ]
Rousseau, P. [1 ]
Iaquaniello, G. [1 ]
Lefrou, T. [1 ]
Flacco, A. [1 ]
Vodungbo, B. [1 ]
Lambert, G. [1 ]
Rousse, A. [1 ]
Zeitoun, P. [1 ]
Sebban, S. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Paris Saclay, LOA, ENSTA ParisTech, CNRS,Ecole Polytech, F-91762 Palaiseau, France
[2] Univ Paris 11, CNRS, Lab Phys Gaz & Plasmas, F-91405 Orsay, France
[3] ASCR, ELI Beamlines Project, Inst Phys, Prague 18221 8, Czech Republic
[4] GIST, Adv Photon Res Inst, Gwangju 500712, South Korea
[5] IBS, Ctr Relativist Laser Sci, Gwangju 500712, South Korea
[6] Univ Paris 06, Sorbonne Univ, LULI, CEA,CNRS,Ecole Polytech,Univ Paris Saclay, F-91128 Palaiseau, France
[7] DIF, CEA, DAM, F-91297 Arpajon, France
基金
欧洲研究理事会;
关键词
COHERENT; PULSE;
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10.1038/NPHOTON.2015.225
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
The advent of X-ray free-electron lasers has granted researchers an unprecedented access to the ultrafast dynamics of matter on the nanometre scale(1-3). Aside from being compact, seeded plasma-based soft X-ray lasers (SXRLs) turn out to be enticing as photon-rich(4) sources (up to 10(15) per pulse) that display high-quality optical properties(5,6). Hitherto, the duration of these sources was limited to the picosecond range(7), which consequently restricts the field of applications. This bottleneck was overcome by gating the gain through ultrafast collisional ionization in a high-density plasma generated by an ultraintense infrared pulse (a few 10(18) W cm(-2)) guided in an optically pre-formed plasma waveguide. For electron densities that ranged from 3 x 10(18) cm(-3) to 1.2 x 10(20) cm(-3), the gain duration was measured to drop from 7 ps to an unprecedented value of about 450 fs, which paves the way to compact and ultrafast SXRL beams with performances previously only accessible in large-scale facilities.
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页码:817 / 821
页数:5
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