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Recent activities at PALS research centre dedicated to the development of coherent short-wavelength radiation sources are presented. The generation mechanisms discussed in this paper include high-order harmonic generation and transient plasma X-ray laser with solid target both using 20 TW Ti:Sapphire laser chain, and quasi-steady state plasma X-ray laser-driven by kJ sub-ns iodine laser system. Besides the ongoing research at PALS we also discuss the conceptual design of future high-order harmonic beamline employing 1 kHz 100 mJ 20 fs laser system at upcoming ELI Beamlines facility.
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We are deeply indebted to J. Hrebicek, T. Medrik and J. Golasowski for their technical support at PALS laboratory. This project was supported by the project ELI—Extreme Light Infrastructure—phase 2 (CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/15_008/0000162) from European Regional Development Fund and Project LQ1606 of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports as part of targeted support from the National Programme of Sustainability II.
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Nejdl, J. et al. (2018). Overview of Laser-Driven Coherent Short-Wavelength Sources at PALS and ELI Beamlines. In: Kawachi, T., Bulanov, S., Daido, H., Kato, Y. (eds) X-Ray Lasers 2016. ICXRL 2016. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 202. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73025-7_1
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