Diagnostics and applications of laser-produced plasmas

Eckhart Foerster; Randolf Butzbach; Paul Gibbon; Ingo Uschmann; Hiroyuki Daido; Kazuhisa Fujita; Hiroaki Nishimura

doi:10.1117/12.375126

11 January 2000 Diagnostics and applications of laser-produced plasmas

Eckhart Foerster, Randolf Butzbach, Paul Gibbon, Ingo Uschmann, Hiroyuki Daido, Kazuhisa Fujita, Hiroaki Nishimura

Proceedings Volume 3886, High-Power Lasers in Energy Engineering; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.375126
Event: Advanced High-Power Lasers and Applications, 1999, Osaka, Japan

Abstract

X-ray spectroscopy is one of the most important diagnostics of laser-produced plasmas, finding application in diverse areas such as laser fusion, x-ray lasers, and novel experiments using shot-pulse lasers to probe chemical and biological phenomena on the femtosecond timescale. Depending on the aims of these experiments, either high resolution spectra combined with either spatial or time resolution, or monochromatic x-ray spectrometer was also used here in x-ray diagnostics of 4f yields 3d transitions in Nickel-like transitions of elements with atomic numbers between 70 and 74. The dependence of this x-ray emission on laser energy, spot size, and target materials provides information about ionization degree, electron temperature and density - important parameters for the population inversion of a Ni- like x-ray laser in the water window.

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Eckhart Foerster, Randolf Butzbach, Paul Gibbon, Ingo Uschmann, Hiroyuki Daido, Kazuhisa Fujita, and Hiroaki Nishimura "Diagnostics and applications of laser-produced plasmas", Proc. SPIE 3886, High-Power Lasers in Energy Engineering, (11 January 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.375126

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