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By seeding an optical-field-ionized population inverted plasma amplifier with the 25th harmonic of an infrared laser we have produced a compact, diffraction- limited and Fourier-limited laser beam in the soft x-ray spectral range. This laser beam is emitted within a cone of 0.7 mrad at a repetition rate of 10 Hz at a central wavelength of 32.8 nm, The beam exhibits a regular Gaussian spatial profile, and wavefront distortions smaller than λ/17. The measured coherence time of 5.5 ps is equal to the duration of the lifetime of the amplifying plasma which shows that this source has reached the Fourier limit.
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Goddet, J.P. et al. (2009). Characterization of a Seeded Optical-Field Ionized Collisional Soft X-Ray Laser. In: Lewis, C.L.S., Riley, D. (eds) X-Ray Lasers 2008. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 130. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9924-3_16
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