Optical pumping experiments on next-generation light sources

Stephen J. Moon; Kevin B. Fournier; H. Scott; H.-K. Chung; R. W. Lee

doi:10.1117/12.560180

10 November 2004 Optical pumping experiments on next-generation light sources

Stephen J. Moon, Kevin B. Fournier, H. Scott, H.-K. Chung, R. W. Lee

Proceedings Volume 5534, Fourth Generation X-Ray Sources and Optics II; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.560180
Event: Optical Science and Technology, the SPIE 49th Annual Meeting, 2004, Denver, Colorado, United States

Abstract

Laser-based plasma spectroscopic techniques have been used with great success to determine the line shapes of atomic transitions in plasmas, study the population kinetics of atomic systems embedded in plasmas, and look at the redistribution of radiation. However, the possibilities for optical lasers end for plasmas with n_e > 10²² cm^-3 as light propagation is severely altered by the plasma. The construction of the Tesla Test Facility (TTF) at DESY (Deutsche Elektronen-Synchrotron), a short pulse tunable free electron laser in the vacuum-ultraviolet and soft X-ray regime (VUV FEL), based on the SASE (self amplified spontaneous emission) process, will provide a major advance in the capability for dense plasma-related research. This source will provide 10¹³ photons in a 200 fs duration pulse that is tunable from ~6 nm to 100 nm. Since an VUV FEL will not have the limitation associated with optical lasers the entire field of high density plasmas kinetics in laser produced plasma will then be available to study with the tunable source. Thus, one will be able to use this and other FEL x-ray sources to pump individual transitions creating enhanced population in the excited states that can be easily monitored. We show two case studies illuminating different aspects of plasma spectroscopy.

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Stephen J. Moon, Kevin B. Fournier, H. Scott, H.-K. Chung, and R. W. Lee "Optical pumping experiments on next-generation light sources", Proc. SPIE 5534, Fourth Generation X-Ray Sources and Optics II, (10 November 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.560180

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