Part 1 - Progress in X-Ray Laser Facilities and Infrastructures
Recent Progress in X-Ray Laser Research in JAEA
T. Kawachi, M. Kishimoto, M. Kado, N. Hasegawa, M. Tanaka,
Y. Ochi, M. Nishikino, M. Ishino, T. Imazono, T. Ohba,
Y. Kunieda, A. Faenov, T. Pikuz, K. Namikawa, S. Namba,
Y. Kato, H. Nishimura, N. Sarukura, M. Kando, Y. Fukuda,
H. Kotaki, A. Pirozhkov, J. Ma, A. Sagisaka, M. Mori, J. Koga,
S. Bulanov, H. Daido, and T. Tajima ............................. 3
Recent Advances on LASERIX Facility: Development of XUV Sources
System and Applications. Perspectives from 2008 to 2010.
D. Ros, S. Kazamias, O. Guilbaud, J. Habib, B. Zielbauer,
M. Pittman, G. Jamelot, A. Klisnick, J.-C. Lagron, D. Joyeux,
S. de Rossi, F. Delmotte, S. Lacombe, E. Porcel, C. Lesech,
A. M. Penhoat, A. Touati ....................................... 13
Recent Progress in Grazing-Incidence-Pumped X-Ray Lasers at
Uni-BE
J.E. Balmer, M. Griinig, C. Imesch, and F. Staub................ 23
Review on Recent High Intensity Physics Experiments Relevant to
X-Ray and Quantum Beam Generation at JAEA
H. Daido, A. Pirozhkov, M. Nishiuchi, A. Yogo, S. Orimo,
K. Ogura, A. Sagisaka, I. Daito, M. Mori, M. Ikegami,
H.Kiriyama, H. Okada, S. Bulanov, T. Esirkepov, S. Kanazawa,
S. Kondo, T. Shimomura, M. Tanoue, Y. Nakai, H. Sasao,
D. Wakai, P. Bolton, Y, Fukuda, A. Faenov, T. Pikuz, M. Suzuki,
M. Tampo, H. Sakaki, T. Tajima, S. Kawanishi, T. Kawachi,
M. Nishikino, I.W. Choi, CM. Kim, T.M. Jeong, N. Hafz, T. J. Yu,
J. H. Sung, Y.-C. Noh, D.-K. Ko, J. Lee, Y. Oishi, K. Nemoto,
T. Nayuki, T. Fujii, H. Nagatomo, K. Nagai, H. Nishimura ....... 33
Towards an 100 Hz X-Ray Laser Station
J. Tümmler, H. Stiel, R. Jung, K.A. Janulewicz,
P.V. Nickles and W. Sandner .................................... 43
Versatile High-Energy and Short-Pulse Operation of PHELIX
T. Kuehl, V. Bagnoud, C Bruske, S. Borneis, B. Ecker,
U. Eisenbarth, J. Fils, S. Goette, T. Hahn, D. Hochhaus,
D. Javorkova, F. Knobloch, M. Kreutz, S. Kunzer,
T. Merz-Mantwill, E. Onkels, D. Reemts, A. Tauschwitz,
K. Witte, B. Zielbauer,D. Zimmer ............................... 53
Central Laser Facility High Power Laser Capabilities Applied
to X-Ray Laser Science
M.M. Notley, N.B. Alexander, R. Heathcote, S. Blake, R.J. Clarke,
J.L.Collier, P. Foster, S.J. Hawkes, C. Hernandez-Gomez,
C.J. Hooker, D. Pepler, I.N. Ross, M. Streeter, G. Tallents,
M. Tolley, T. Winstone, B. Wyborn and D. Neely ................. 59
TARANIS: A Pump Source for X-Ray Lasers
G. Nersisyan, T. Dzelzainis, C.L.S. Lewis, D. Riley, R. Ferrari,
M. Zepf, M. Borghesi, L. Romagnani. D. Doria, D. Marlow,
B. Dromey ...................................................... 65
Photon Frontier Network
Y. Kato, M. Gonokami, R. Kodama, Y. Sano, S. Yagi
and T. Yabuzaki ................................................ 71
Part 2 - Transient Collisional X-Ray Lasers
Grazing Incidence Pumping (GRIP): Single- vs. Double-Pulse
Arrangement
K.A. Janulewicz, C.M. Kim, H.T. Kim, J. Lee .................... 81
An Improved Double-Pulse Non-Normal Incidence Pumping Geometry
for Transient Collisionally Excited Soft X-Ray Lasers
Daniel Zimmer, Vincent Bagnoud, Boris Ecker, Udo Eisenbarth,
Jamil Habib, Daniel Hochhaus, Dasa Javorkova, Sophie Kazamias,
Thomas Kuehl, David Ros, Daniel Ursescu, Bernhard Zielbauer,
and the PHELIX-Team ............................................ 91
Generation of the Circularly Polarized X-Ray Laser Using the
Pulse-Power Magnet
N. Hasegawa, T. Kawachi, A. Sasaki, H Yamatani, A. Iwamae, M.
Kishimoto, M. Tanaka, Y. Ochi, M. Nishikino, Y. Kunieda, H
Kawazome, K. Nagashima and H. Yoneda ........................... 99
Gain Saturation of the Ni-like Antimony Laser at 11.4 nm in
Grazing-Incidence Pumping Geometry
C. Imesch, F. Staub and J.E. Balmer ........................... 107
Temporal Coherence and Spectral Line Shape of a GRIP
Transient X-Ray Laser
J. Habib, A. Klisnick, O. Guilbaud, D. Joyeux, B. Zielbauer,
S. Kazamias, D. Ros, F. de Dortan and M. Pittman .............. 115
Part 3 - High Repetition Rate X-Ray Lasers
High Coherence Injection-Seeded Table-Top Soft X-Ray Lasers
at Wavelengths Down to 13.2 nm
J.J. Rocca, Y. Wang, F. Pedaci, B. Luther, M. Berrill,
D. Alessi, E. Granados, M. Man Shakya, S. Gilbertson,
Z. Chang ...................................................... 125
Characterization of a Seeded Optical-Field Ionized
Collisional Soft X-Ray Laser
J.P. Goddet, S. Sebban, O. Guilbaud, J. Gautier, Ph. Zeitoun,
C. Valentin, F. Tissandier, T. Marchenko, G. Lambert, J. Nejdl,
B. Cros, G. Maynard, B.Robillard, S. Kazamias, K. Cassou,
A. Klisnick, D. Ros, J. Benredjem, T. Mocek, M. Kozlovd
and K. Jakubczak .............................................. 135
Investigation on the Spatial Properties of Silver X-Ray
Laser Using GRIP Schemes
H.T. Kim, K.A. Janulewicz, C.M. Kim, I.W. Choi,
J.H. Sung, T.J. Yu, S.K. Lee, T.M. Jeong, D.-K. Ko,
P.V. Nickles, J. Tiimmler, and J.Lee .......................... 143
Spatial Filtering of High Order Harmonics by an OFI Plasma
Amplifier
J.P. Goddet, S. Sebban, Ph. Zeitoun, J. Gautier, C. Valentin,
F. Tissandier, T. Marchenko, G. Lambert, J. Nejdl, B. Cros,
G. Maynard, B.Robillard, T. Mocek, M. Kozlovd
and K. Jakubczak .............................................. 153
New Driver Laser System for Double Target X-Ray Lasers
at JAEA
Y. Ochi, N. Hasegawa, T. Kawachi, M. Nishikino, M. Tanaka,
M. Kishimoto, and T. Ohba ..................................... 161
Part 4 - Optical-Field-Ionised (OFI) X-Ray Lasers
Toward Ultraintense Compact RBS Pump for Recombination
3.4 nm Laser via OFI
S. Suckewer, J. Ren, S. Li, Y. Lou, A. Morozov, D. Turnbull,
Y. Avitzour ................................................... 169
High Brightness Optical-Field-Ionization X-Ray Lasers
Driven in Plasma Waveguides
M.-C. Chou, P.-H. Lin, R.-P. Huang, S.-Y. Chen, H.-H. Chu,
J. Wang and J.-Y. Lin ......................................... 183
Temporal Coherence and Spectral Linewidth of a Seeded Soft
X-Ray Laser Pulse
O. Guilbaud, J.P. Goddet, S. Sebban, D. Joyeux, D. Ros,
J. Gautier, K. Cassou, S. Kazamias, A. Klisnick, J. Habib,
P. Zeitoun, D. Benredjem, S. de Rossi, G. Maynard, B. Cros,
A. Boudaa, D. Phalippou and A. Calisti ........................ 193
Part 5 - Theory and Simulations
The Scaling of Recombination Following Tunnel Ionisation
and its Suitability for Generating X-Ray Laser Gain
G.J. Pert ..................................................... 201
Advances in Understanding the Anomalous Dispersion
of Plasmas in the X-Ray Regime
Joseph Nilsen, K.T. Cheng, Walter R. Johnson .................. 211
Recent Developments on Seeded or Unseeded Transient
X-Ray Lasers
A. Klisnick, O. Larroche, F. De Dortan, J. Habib,
O. Guilbaud, S. Kazamias, D. Ros, B. Zielbauer ................ 221
Influence of the number of atomic levels on the
modelling of collisional X-ray lasers
F. de Dortan, M. Busquet, A. Bar-Shalom, M. Klapisch,
J. Oreg, B. Rus, M. Kozlova and J. Nejdl ...................... 231
Modelling of Capillary Z-Pinch Recombination Pumping of
Hydrogen-Like Ion EUV Lasers
P. Vrba, N.A. Bobrova, P.V. Sasorov, M. Vrbova
and J. Hubner ................................................. 239
Propagation of a High-Harmonic Pulse Through
a Population-Inverted Medium
Chul Min Kim, Karol A. Janulewicz, Hyung Taek Kim,
Do-Kyeong Ko and Jongmin Lee .................................. 247
Modeling of an Ultra-Short X-Ray Laser Pulse Amplification
Through an Optical-Field-Ionized Gas Using a Maxwell-Bloch
Treatment
B. Robillart, G. Maynard, B. Cros, A. Boudaa, J. Dubau,
S. Sebban, and JP. Goddet ..................................... 255
Effects of Inhomogeneous Incident Line Focus on 2D
Hydrodynamic Behaviour of X-Ray Laser Plasma on Slab
T. Cheng, Y.J. Li, L.M. Meng, J. Zhang ........................ 263
Excitation Rates for Transitions in Ne-Like Ni XIX
K.M. Aggarwal and F.P. Keenan ................................. 271
Conversion Efficiency Calculations for Soft X-Rays Emitted
from Tin Plasma for Lithography Applications
P. Demir, P. Demir, E. Kacar, S.K. Bilikmen and A. Demir ...... 281
Theoretical Investigation of Photo-pumping X-Ray Lasers
Using Kα Line from Solid Target
T. Kawachi and Y. Kato ........................................ 289
Part 6 - High Harmonic Generation (HHG)
Coherent Water-Window X-Ray Generation by Phase-Matched High
Harmonics in Neutral Media
Eiji J. Takahashi and Katsumi Midorikawa ...................... 299
Relativistically Oscillating Mirrors - an Ultrabright
Attosecond Source
M. Zepf, B. Dromey, M. Geissler, R. Hörlein, Y. Nomura,
G.D. Tsakiris, S. Rykovanov ................................... 307
Spectral Characteristics of Strong High-Harmonics Generated
in a Two-Color Laser Field
C.H. Nam, I.J. Kim, G.H. Lee, S.B. Park, T.K. Kim,
and C.M. Kim .................................................. 315
Diffraction Limited Harmonic Emission from Laser Produced
Plasmas
B. Dromey, D. Adams, R. Hoerlein, Y. Nomura, D. Neely,
G. Tsakiris, M. Zepf .......................................... 323
Part 7 - XUV Optics and Applications of X-Ray Lasers
X-Ray Lasers as Probes of Plasma Parameters
G.J. Tallents, N. Booth, M.H. Edwards, L.M.R. Gartside,
H. Huang, A.K. Rossall, E. Wagenaars, D.S. Whittaker
and Z. Zhai ................................................... 331
Advances in Nanoscale Resolution Soft X-Ray Laser Microscopy
C.S. Menoni, F. Brizuela, C. Brewer, D. Martz, P. Wachulak,
S. Fernandez Jimenez, M.C. Marconi, J.J. Rocca, W. Chao,
E.H. Anderson, D.T. Attwood, A.V. Vinogradov, I.A. Artioukov,
Y.P. Pershyn, and V.V. Kondratenko ............................ 341
Experimental Diagnosis of Plasma Jets by Using X-Ray Laser
Sun Jin-ren, Wang Chen, Fang Zhi-heng, Wang Wei, Xiong Jun,
Fu Si-zu, Gu Yuan, Wang Shi-ji, Zheng Wu-di, Ye Wen-Hua,
Qiao Xiu-Mei, Zhang Guo-ping .................................. 349
Soft X-Ray Holography with Wavelength Resolution
P.W. Wachulak, M.C. Marconi, R. Bartels, C.S. Menoni,
J.J. Rocca .................................................... 357
Ablation Measurements Using Ni-Like Ag X-Ray Laser Transmission
N. Booth, M.H. Edwards, Z. Zhai, G.J. Tallents, T. Dzelzainis,
R. Ferrari, C.L.S. Lewis, G. Gregori, D. Neely ................ 365
High Sensitive Characterization of Microdomain Structures in
PZN-PT (91/09) by Means of Coherent Soft X-Ray Laser Speckle
K. Namikawa, R.Z. Tai, M. Matsushita, K. Ohwada,
M. Kishimoto .................................................. 373
Warm Photoionized Plasmas Created by Soft X-Ray Laser
Irradiation of Solid Targets
M. Berrill, F. Brizuela, B. Langdon, H. Bravo, C.S. Menoni
and J.J. Rocca ................................................ 381
Development of Multilayer Optics in EUV, Soft X-Ray
and X-Ray Range at IPOE
Zhanshan Wang, Jingtao Zhu, Zhong Zhang, Xinbin Cheng,
Jing Xu, Fengli Wang, Xiaoqiang Wang, Lingyan Chen ............ 391
Highly Efficient Surface Modification of Solids by Dual
Action of XUV/Vis-NIR Laser Pulses
T. Mocek, K. Jakubczak, J. Polan, P. Homer, B. Rus, I.J. Kim,
C.M. Kim, S.B. Park, T.K. Kim, G.H. Lee, C.H. Nam,
J. Chalupský, V. Hájková, L. Juha ............................. 401
Strand Breaks in DNA Samples Induced with LASERIX
B. Zielbauer, J. Habib, S. Kazamias, O. Guilbaud, M. Pittman,
D. Ros, M.-A. Hervé du Penhoat, A. Touati, C. Le Sech,
E. Porcel, S. Lacombe ......................................... 409
High Resolution X-Ray Laser Backlighting of Plasmas Using
Spatial Filtering Technique
M. Kozlová, B.Rus, T. Mocek, J. Polan, P. Homer, D.
Snopek, K. Jakubczak, M. Fajardo, A. Barszczak Sardinha ....... 417
Development of Soft X-Ray Fourier Transform Holography with
Fresnel Zone Plate
Masaharu Nishikino, Hiroshi Yamatani, Keisuke Nagashima,
and Tetsuya Kawachi ........................................... 427
Lensless Imaging Using Table-Top Soft X-Ray Lasers and High
Harmonics Sources Reaching 70 nm Resolution
R.L. Sandberg, P.W. Wachulak, D.A. Raymondson, A. Paul,
A.E. Sakdinawat, B. Amirbekian, E. Lee, Y. Liu,
C. La-O- Vorakiat, C. Song, M.C. Marconi, C.S. Menoni,
M.M. Murnane, J.J. Rocca, H.C. Kapteyn, and J. Miao ........... 433
Gas Phase Study of The Reactivity of Optical Coating
Materials with Hydrocarbons Using a Compact Soft
X-Ray Laser
S. Heinbuch, F. Dong, E.R. Bernstein and J.J. Rocca ........... 439
Gas Phase Studies of Catalytic Processes Involving
Vmon Clusters and their Reaction with Alcohols,
Alkenes, Nox, and Nh3 Using a Desk-Top Size Soft
X-Ray Laser
S. Heinbuch, F. Dong, E.R. Bernstein and J.J. Rocca ........... 445
Time-of-Flight Measurements of Ion and Electron from Xenon
Clusters Irradiated with a Soft X-Ray Laser Pulse
S. Namba, N. Hasegawa, M. Nishikino, M. Kishimoto, T.
Kawachi, M. Tanaka, Y. Ochi, K Nagashima and K. Takiyama ...... 453
Calibration of a High Resolution Soft X-Ray Spectrometer
J. Dunn, P. Beiersdorfer, G.V. Brown and E.W. Magee ........... 461
XUV Probing as a Diagnostic of Rayleigh-Taylor Instability
Growth
L.M.R. Gartside, G.J. Tallents, J. Pasley, J. Gaffney
and S. Rose ................................................... 469
Line Focus Geometry for Grazing Incidence Pumped X-Ray Lasers
Z. Zhai, M.H. Edwards, N. Booth and G. Tallents ............... 475
Resolution and Feature Size Assessment in Soft X-Ray
Microscopy Images
M.C. Marconi, P.W. Wachulak, C. Brewer, F. Brizuela,
R. Bartels,C.S. Menoni, J.J. Rocca, E. Anderson, W. Chao ...... 483
An Approach to the Generation of Uniform Line Foci for Use
in X-Ray Laser Experiments
T. W. J. Dzelzainis and C. L. S. Lewis ........................ 489
Interferometric Lithography with a Desk-Top Size Soft
X-Ray Laser
P.W. Wachulak, M.C. Marconi, W. Rockward, D. Hill,
E.H. Anderson, C.S. Menoni, J.J. Rocca ........................ 495
Time-Resolved Fluorescence Spectrum of Wide-Gap
Semiconductors Excited by 13.9 nm X-Ray Laser
M. Tanaka, Y. Furukawa, T. Nakazato, T. Tatsumi, H. Murakami,
T. Shimizu, N. Sarukura, M. Nishikino, T. Kawachi,
Y. Kagamitani, D. Ehrentraut, T. Fukuda, H. Nishimura
and K. Mima ................................................... 501
Part 8 - Alternative Approaches for Sources of Bright X-Rays
Application of Extremely Bright and Coherent Soft and
Hard X-Ray Free-Electron Laser Radiation
Th. Tschentscher .............................................. 509
Design Study of Compact Thomson X-Ray Sources for Material
and Life Sciences Applications
E.G. Bessonov, M.V. Gorbunkov, P.V. Kostryukov, Yu.Ya.
Maslova, V.G. Tunkin, A.A. Postnov, A.A. Mikhailichenko,
V.I. Shvedunov, B.S. Ishkhanov, A.V. Vinogradov ............... 521
An Attempt to Generate an Inner-Shell Photo-Ionisation
Pumped X-Ray Laser Using the ASTRA Laser at RAL
T.W.J. Dzelzainis, M. Streeter, F.Y. Khattak, R. Ferrari,
C.L.S. Lewis, D. Riley, R. Tommasini, and G. Gregori .......... 537
Electron Self-Injection and Radiation in the Laser Plasma
Accelerator
M.R. Islam, S. Cipiccia, B. Ersfeld, A. Reitsma, J.L. Martin,
L. Silva, D.A. Jaroszynski .................................... 543
Emission Spectroscopy from an XUV Laser Irradiated
Solid Target
T.W.J. Dzelzainis, F.Y. Khattak, B. Nagler, S. Vinko,
T. Whitcher, A.J. Nelson, R.W. Lee, S. Bajt, S. Toleikis,
R. Fäustlin, T. Tschentscher, L. Juha, M. Kozlova,
J. Chalupsky, V. Hajkova, J. Krzywinski, R. Soberierski,
M. Jurek, M. Fajardo, F.B. Rosmej, P. Heinmann, J.S. Wark,
and D. Riley .................................................. 549
Innershell X-Ray Laser in Sodium Vapor: Final Steps Towards
Experimental Verification
J. Nejdl, T. Mocek, B. Rus, S. Sebban, B. Wellegehausen ....... 557
|
