Applications of High-Field and Short Wavelength Sources

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-x

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2. High-Power Laser Sources

   1. The Production of Petawatt Laser Pulses

      • M. D. Perry, B. C. Stuart, D. Pennington, G. Tietbohl, J. Britten, C. Brown et al.

      Pages 1-9

   2. Multiterawatt Ultraviolet Lasers

      • Fiorenzo G. Omenetto, Keith Boyer, Tom Nelson, James W. Longworth, W. A. Schroeder, C. K. Rhodes

      Pages 11-15

   3. 0.27 Terawatt laser system at 1 kHz

      • Sterling Backus, Charles G. Durfee III, Henry C. Kapteyn, Margaret M. Murnane

      Pages 17-21

   4. Determination of the Duration of UV Femtosecond Pulses

      • J.-F. Ripoche, B. S. Prade, M. A. Franco, G. Grillon, R. Lange, A. Mysyrowicz

      Pages 23-27

3. Ultrafast Coherent UV and X-Ray Sources

   1. Saturated Table-Top Soft X-Ray Lasers by Discharge Excitation

      • J. J. Rocca, F. G. Tomasel, J. L. A. Chilla, M. C. Marconi, V. N. Shlyaptsev, C. H. Moreno et al.

      Pages 29-38

   2. Phase-Locking of High-Order Harmonics to the Fundamental Field

      • M. B. Gaarde, C. Altucci, M. Bellini, T. W. Hänsch, A. L’Huillier, C. Lyngå et al.

      Pages 39-44

   3. Soft-X-Ray Harmonics in the Water Window

      • Andy Rundquist, Zenghu Chang, Haiwen Wang, Erik Zeek, Margaret Murnane, Henry Kapteyn

      Pages 45-51

   4. Harmonic Generation in Presence of Ionization

      • A. Bouhal, G. Hamoniaux, A. Mysyrowicz, A. Antonetti, P. Salières, P. Breger et al.

      Pages 53-58

   5. The Optimisation of Soft X-Ray Laser Output

      • G. J. Tallents, J. Y. Lin, J. Zhang, A. Behjat, A. Demir, M. M. Güzelgöz et al.

      Pages 59-64

   6. Spectroscopic Investigations of an Optical-Fieldionized X-Ray Laser with a Microcapillary Target

      • Katsumi Midorikawa, Yutaka Nagata

      Pages 65-69

   7. Guided-Wave Optical Parametric Amplification in Gases: A Novel Phase-Matching Technique for Ultrafast Pulses

      • Charles G. Durfee III, Sterling Backus, Margaret M. Murnane, Henry C. Kapteyn

      Pages 71-77

   8. Increased Coherence Length in High-Order Harmonic Generation by a Self-Guided Beam

      • H. R. Lange, A. A. Chiron, A. Bouhal, J.-F. Ripoche, P. Breger, P. Agostini et al.

      Pages 79-83

4. Novel Short Wavelength Sources

   1. Accelerator Based Source Development: Higher, Wider and Shorter

      • Erik D. Johnson

      Pages 85-92

   2. A Debrisless Laser-Plasma Source for EUV and XUV Generation

      • Christopher M. DePriest, David S. Torres, Martin C. Richardson

      Pages 93-96

   3. Attosecond Pulse Generation at Gas Ionization by Few-Optical-Cycle Laser Pulses

      • A. V. Kim, M. D. Chernobrovtseva, D. V. Kartashov, A. M. Sergeev

      Pages 97-102

   4. X-Ray Emission from Rare Gas Clusters in Intense Laser Fields

      • M. Lezius, S. Dobosz, P. d’Olivera, P. Meynadier, J.-P. Rozet, D. Vernhet et al.

      Pages 103-108

   5. Hard X-Ray Emission from Femtosecond Laser Interaction in Overdense Plasmas

      • A. A. Andreev, V. N. Novikov, K. Yu. Platonov, J.-C. Gauthier

      Pages 109-112

5. Ultrashort-Pulse Laser Plasma Interactions

   1. Plasma Waveguide: Density Development and High Intensity Guiding

      • Thomas R. Clark Jr., Sergei P. Nikitin, Yuelin Li, Howard M. Milchberg

      Pages 113-121

   2. Explosion of Atomic Clusters Heated by High Intensity, Femtosecond Laser Pulses

      • T. Ditmire, J. W. G. Tisch, E. Springate, M. B. Mason, N. Hay, J. P. Marangos et al.

      Pages 123-130

The Optical Society of America Conference on Applications of High Fields and Short Wavelength Sources, held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, from March 20-22, 1997, was an exceptionally exciting conference. This conference was the seventh in a series of topical con­ ferences, held every two years, which are devoted to the generation and application of high field and short wavelength sources. The meeting was truly international in scope, with equal participation from both within and outside of the US. In the past two years, there has been dramatic progress in both laser and x-ray coher­ ent sources, both fundamental and applied. The 1997 meeting highlighted these advances, which are summarized in sections 1 and 2 of this volume. Terawatt-class lasers are now avail­ able in the UV or at high repetition rates. Michael Perry (LLNL) presented a keynote talk on petawatt class lasers and their applications in inertial confinement fusion, while Jorge Rocca (Colorado State University) presented a keynote talk on tabletop soft-x-ray lasers. Genera­ tion and measurement techniques are becoming very sophisticated throughout the UV and x­ ray region of the spectrum, and coherent sources have been extended to wavelengths below 30A. Phase control in the x-ray region is also now possible, and new phase-matching schemes in the UV have been experimentally demonstrated. It is clear that a new field of x-ray nonlin­ ear optics will deveiop rapidly over the next few years.

• Phase
• development
• laser
• measurement techniques
• optics

• Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, USA

  Louis DiMauro

• University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

  Margaret Murnane

• Lund Institute of Technology, Lund, Sweden

  Anne L’Huillier

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