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Gain dynamics in a soft-X-ray laser amplifier perturbed by a strong injected X-ray field
Y Wang
1
S. Wang
1
L Li
2, 3
Eduardo Oliva
4
M Berrill
5
L. Yin
1
J. Nejdl
1
B.M. Luther
1
C. Proux
2
T.T.T. Le
4
J. Dunn
6
D. Ros
4
Philippe Zeitoun
2
Jorge J. Rocca
1
Philippe Zeitoun 2
Author IdHAL : philippe-zeitoun
Jorge J. Rocca 1
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1
NSF Center for EUV Science and Technology (Colorado State University, Fort Collins - United States)
- NSF (France)
2
LOA - Laboratoire d'optique appliquée (828, boulevard des Maréchaux 91762 Palaiseau Cedex - France)
- ENSTA Paris - École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées (828, boulevard des Maréchaux 91762 Palaiseau Cedex - France)
- X - École polytechnique (École polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau Cedex - France)
- CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique : UMR7639 (France)
3
SNST - School of Nuclear Science and Technology [Lanzhou] (Lanzhou University, South Tianshui Road, 222, Lanzhou, Gansu, P. R. China, 730000 - China)
- Lanzhou University (222 South Tianshui Road, Lanzhou 730000, Gansu Province, P.R.China - China)
4
LPGP - Laboratoire de physique des gaz et des plasmas (SUPELEC - Plateau de Moulon 3, rue Joliot-Curie 91192 GIF SUR YVETTE CEDEX - France)
- UP11 - Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (Bâtiment 300 - 91405 Orsay cedex - France)
- CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique : UMR8578 (France)
5
ORNL - Oak Ridge National Laboratory [Oak Ridge] (P.O. Box 2008 Oak Ridge, TN 37831 - United States)
- UT-Battelle, LLC (1201 Oak Ridge Turnpike, Suite 100, Oak Ridge, TN 37830 - United States)
6
LLNL - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (7000 East Avenue • Livermore, CA 94550 - United States)
Abstract : Seeding soft-X-ray plasma amplifiers with high harmonics has been demonstrated to generate high-brightness soft-X-ray laser pulses with full spatial and temporal coherence. The interaction between the injected coherent field and the swept-gain medium has been modelled. However, no experiment has been conducted to probe the gain dynamics when perturbed by a strong external seed field. Here, we report the first X-ray pump–X-ray probe measurement of the nonlinear response of a plasma amplifier perturbed by a strong soft-X-ray ultra-short pulse. We injected a sequence of two time-delayed high-harmonic pulses (λ = 18.9 nm) into a collisionally excited nickel-like molybdenum plasma to measure with femtosecond resolution the gain depletion induced by the saturated amplification of the high-harmonic pump and its subsequent recovery. The measured fast gain recovery in 1.5–1.75 ps confirms the possibility to generate ultra-intense, fully phase-coherent soft-X-ray lasers by chirped pulse amplification in plasma amplifiers.
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Last modification on : Friday, October 16, 2020 - 3:41:02 AM
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- HAL Id : hal-01199046, version 1
- DOI : 10.1038/nphoton.2014.79
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Y Wang, S. Wang, L Li, Eduardo Oliva, M Berrill, et al.. Gain dynamics in a soft-X-ray laser amplifier perturbed by a strong injected X-ray field. Nature Photonics, Nature Publishing Group, 2014, 8, pp.381-384. ⟨10.1038/nphoton.2014.79⟩. ⟨hal-01199046⟩
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