X-ray laser developments at PHELIX

Thomas Kuehl; Bastian Aurand; Vincent Bagnoud; Boris Ecker; Udo Eisenbarth; Jérôme Fils; Daniel Hochhaus; Dasa Javorkova; Paul Neumayer; Bernhard Zielbauer; Daniel Zimmer; Jamil Habib; Sophie Kazamias; Annie Klisnick; David Ros; Josef Seres; Christian Spielmann; Daniel Ursescu

doi:10.1117/12.826212

28 September 2009 X-ray laser developments at PHELIX

Thomas Kuehl, Bastian Aurand, Vincent Bagnoud, Boris Ecker, Udo Eisenbarth, Jérôme Fils, Daniel Hochhaus, Dasa Javorkova, Paul Neumayer, Bernhard Zielbauer, Daniel Zimmer, Jamil Habib, Sophie Kazamias, Annie Klisnick, David Ros, Josef Seres, Christian Spielmann, Daniel Ursescu

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Proceedings Volume 7451, Soft X-Ray Lasers and Applications VIII; 74510M (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.826212
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2009, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The PHELIX laser at the GSI Helmholtz center for heavy-ion research is dedicated to provide high energy, ultra-intense laser pulses for experiments in combination with energetic ion beams. Development of x-ray lasers is targeting a number of applications in this context, including x-ray laser spectroscopy of highly-charged ions, and Thomson scattering diagnostics of heavy-ion driven plasmas. Recent developments centered on the application of a novel double-pulse pumping scheme under GRIP-like, non-normal incidence geometry for both the pre- and the main pulse for transient pumped Ni-like lasers. This scheme considerably simplifies the set-up, and provides a very stable pumping situation even at low pump energies close to the lasing threshold. The technique was scaled to pulse energies above 100 J for the pumping of shorter wavelength x-ray lasers. In addition, a slightly tunable high-harmonic source using a split-off beam from the Nd:Glass pre-amplifier of PHELIX was developed as a seeding source.

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Thomas Kuehl, Bastian Aurand, Vincent Bagnoud, Boris Ecker, Udo Eisenbarth, Jérôme Fils, Daniel Hochhaus, Dasa Javorkova, Paul Neumayer, Bernhard Zielbauer, Daniel Zimmer, Jamil Habib, Sophie Kazamias, Annie Klisnick, David Ros, Josef Seres, Christian Spielmann, and Daniel Ursescu "X-ray laser developments at PHELIX", Proc. SPIE 7451, Soft X-Ray Lasers and Applications VIII, 74510M (28 September 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.826212

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