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Thanks to the most recent works on x-ray laser and on high order harmonics (HHG), it is now possible to produce an energetic beam having at the same time the required optical properties. The solution consists in seeding the XRL amplifier medium with another beam (HHG). This experiment was successfully realized in LOA. We studied seeding of two x-ray laser transitions, 4d-4p at 32.8 nm in Kr8+ and 5d-5p 41.8 nm in Xe8+. The amplifying medium is generated by focussing a high energy circularly polarized, 35 fs 10 Hz Ti: sapphire laser system in a few mm cell filled with gas (xenon or krypton). We succeeded to increase from a factor 10 to 200 the HHG energy, without deteriorating their optical qualities. The resulting beam was polarized, coherent and we estimate the output energy to be about 0.5 εJ.
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Sebban, S. et al. (2007). Status and Prospects on Soft X-Ray Lasers Seeded by a High Harmonic Beam at LOA. In: Nickles, P., Janulewicz, K. (eds) X-Ray Lasers 2006. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 115. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6018-2_27
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