X-Ray Lasers 2018

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiii

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2. Plasma-Based X-Ray Lasers

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. 3D Chemical Mapping of Thin Films by Means of X-Ray Laser Microanalysis

      • D. Bleiner, M. Trottmann, R. Müller, L. Rush, I. Kuznezov, A. Cabas-Vidani et al.

      Pages 3-10

   3. The Ablation of Solid Targets Using a Capillary Discharge Laser

      • G. J. Tallents, S. A. Wilson, J. Lolley, E. Solis Meza, E. Wagenaars, H. Bravo et al.

      Pages 11-15

   4. Hydrodynamic Modelling of Plasma-Based Soft X-ray Amplifiers

      • E. Oliva

      Pages 17-22

   5. The Use of Inhomogeneous Forming Lines in the Laser Power Supply System on a High-Current Z-Discharge Plasma

      • N. Kalinin, V. Antonov, S. Vaganov, A. Kovalenko

      Pages 23-28

   6. Enhanced Fluorescence from X-Ray Line Coincidence Pumping

      • J. Nilsen, D. Burridge, L. M. R. Hobbs, D. Hoarty, P. Beiersdorfer, G. V. Brown et al.

      Pages 29-35

   7. Generation of Short Wavelength Radiation and Energetic Particles by Using PW-Class Lasers

      • T. Kawachi, M. Nishikino, A. Sasaki, N. Hasegawa, M. Ishino, T.-H. Dinh et al.

      Pages 37-43

   8. Shaping of X-ray Pulses via Dynamical Control of Their Interaction with a Resonant Medium

      • T. Akhmedzhanov, V. Antonov, X. Zhang, K. C. Han, E. Kuznetsova, I. Khairulin et al.

      Pages 45-52

   9. Seeded Soft X-Ray Lasers: Towards OAM Beam Amplification and Quasi-Pi-pulse Regime

      • O. Guilbaud, F. Sanson, A. K. Pandey, E. Papagiannouli, J. Demailly, O. Neveu et al.

      Pages 53-60

   10. EUV Laser Irradiation System with Intensity Monitor

       • M. Ishino, T.-H. Dinh, N. Hasegawa, K. Sakaue, T. Higashiguchi, S. Ichimaru et al.

       Pages 61-66

   11. Li-like Aluminum Plasma Soft X-ray Laser by Means of Recombination Scheme

       • S. Namba, N. Kubo, C. John, N. Hasegawa, M. Kishimoto, M. Nishikino et al.

       Pages 67-71

   12. Experimental Study of the Gain Dependence on Driving Laser Pulse Leading Edge Duration

       • P. Zakopal, M. Krůs, M. Kozlová

       Pages 73-76

3. High-Order Harmonic Generation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77

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   2. High-Charge XUV Vortex Beam: Generation and Hartmann Wavefront Sensor Characterization

      • F. Sanson, A. K. Pandey, F. Harms, G. Dovillaire, E. Baynard, J. Demailly et al.

      Pages 79-84

   3. Ultrafast Inner-Shell Electron Excitation with High Energy Recollision Electron Driven by Mid-infrared Laser

      • Z. Zeng, Y. Deng, Y. Zheng, G. Marcus, R. Li

      Pages 85-91

   4. User-Oriented High-Harmonic Source at ELI Beamlines

      • O. Finke, O. Hort, M. Albrecht, V. E. Nefedova, D. D. Mai, F. Giambruno et al.

      Pages 93-98

   5. Enhancement of Harmonics Generated in Modulated Indium Laser-Plasmas: Experiment and Theory

      • S. Y. Stremoukhov, R. A. Ganeev, A. V. Andreev

      Pages 99-102

   6. Imaging Plate Absolute Calibration in the XUV Wavelength Range

      • P. Gajdoš, M. Kozlová, M. Krůs

      Pages 103-106

4. X-Rays from Relativistic Electron Beams

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107

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These proceedings gather a selection of invited and contributed papers presented during the 16th International Conference on X-Ray Lasers (ICXRL 2018), held in Prague, Czech Republic, from 7 to 12 October 2018. The conference is part of an ongoing series dedicated to recent developments in the science and technology of X-ray lasers and other coherent X-ray sources, with an additional focus on supporting technologies, instrumentation and applications.   

The book highlights advances in a wide range of fields including laser and discharge-pumped plasma X-ray lasers, the injection and seeding of X-ray amplifiers, high-order harmonic generation and ultrafast phenomena, X-ray free electron lasers, novel schemes for (in)coherent XUV, X-ray and γ-ray generation, XUV and X-ray imaging, optics and metrology, X-rays and γ-rays for fundamental science, the practical implementation of X-ray lasers, XFELs and super-intense lasers, and the applications and industrial uses ofX-ray lasers.

• ICXRL 2018 proceedings
• 16th International Conference on X-Ray Lasers
• coherent x-rays
• plasma-based x-ray lasers
• applications of soft x-ray lasers
• Discharge pumped plasma X-ray lasers
• Injection and seeding of X-ray amplifiers
• High-order harmonics generation
• XUV, X-ray and y-ray generation
• X-ray free electron lasers (XFELS)

• ELI Beamlines Project, Institute of Physics CAS, Praha 8, Czech Republic

  Michaela Kozlová, Jaroslav Nejdl

Michaela Kozlová is the head of a Ti:Sapphire laser laboratory at PALS Research Center, and is intensively involved in the program on laser-driven X-ray sources at the ELI Beamlines project. Holding a Ph.D. (2010) from the Czech Technical University in Prague, she has previously worked as a research fellow at laboratories in France, the United Kingdom, Germany, and South Korea. Her work chiefly focuses on laser-driven secondary sources in the X-ray region, including plasma-based X-ray lasers, electron acceleration by lasers, betatron or Compton X-ray sources, and their metrology and applications.   

Jaroslav Nejdl is currently the head of a research program on laser-driven X-ray sources at the ELI Beamlines facility. After receiving his B.Sc. (2006), M.Sc. (2009) and Ph.D. (2012) from the Czech Technical University in Prague, he spent one year at the LOA, ENSTA ParisTech, France, and a subsequent year at CSU, USA, where he worked as a research fellow. While his earlier work focused on plasma-based X-ray lasers and their applications, he is currently pursuing research into various types of laser-driven short-wavelength sources, both coherent and incoherent.

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