X-Ray Lasers 2018

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 -ray generation, XUV and X-ray imaging, optics and metrology, X-rays and -rays for fundamental science, the practical implementation of X-ray lasers, XFELs and super-intense lasers, and the applications and industrial uses of X-ray lasers.

Auteur

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.

Contenu

Part 1: Plasma-based X-ray lasers.

Chapter 1 - Shorter wavelength repetitively fired x-ray lasers.

Chapter 2 - 3D Chemical Mapping of Thin Films by means of X-Ray Laser Microanalysis. Chapter 3 - The ablation of solid targets using a capillary discharge laser.

Chapter 4 - Hydrodynamic modelling of plasma-based soft X-ray ampliers.

Chapter 5 - The use of inhomogeneous forming lines in the laser power supply system on a high-current Z-discharge plasma.

Chapter 6 - Enhanced fluorescence from X-ray line coincidence pumping.

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

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

Chapter 9 - Seeded soft x-ray lasers: towards OAM beam amplication and quasi pi-pulse regime. Chapter 10 - EUV Laser Irradiation System with Intensity Monitor.

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

Chapter 12 - Experimental study of the gain dependence on driving laser pulse leading edge duration.

Part 2: High-order harmonic generation.

Chapter 13 - High-Charge XUV Vortex Beam : Generation and Hartmann Wavefront Sensor Characterization.

Chapter 14 - Ultrafast Inner Shell Electron Excitation with high Energy Recollision Electron driven by Mid-Infrared laser.

Chapter 15 - User-oriented high harmonic source at ELI Beamlines.

Chapter 16 - Enhancement of harmonics generated in modulated indium laser plasmas: experiment and theory.

Chapter 17 - Imaging plate absolute calibration in the XUV wavelength range. Part 3: X-rays from relativistic electron beams.

Chapter 18 - Betatron X/-ray Radiation from Wakefield-Accelerated Electrons Wiggling in Laser Fields.

Chapter 19 - LWFA-driven betatron source for Plasma Physics Platform at ELI Beamlines.

Chapter 20 - Imaging Objects with Coded Apertures, Utilising a Laser Wakeeld X-Ray Source.

Chapter 21 - Progresses of a hard X-ray Split and Delay Line unit for the MID station at the European XFEL .

Chapter 22 - Modeling diamond irradiated with a European XFEL pulse.

Part 4:X-ray optics, Imaging and metrology.

Chapter 23 - Time-resolved near-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy in the water window and beyond using laboratory based laser plasma sources.

Chapter 24 - Ptychography and Single Shot Nanoscale Imaging with Plasma-based Laser Sources.

Chapter 25 - Pico-Femto-Attosecond metrology for advanced and XUV photon sources.

Chapter 26 - High Spectral and Spatial Resolution Soft X-Ray/XUV VLS Spectrographs. Chapter 27 - Spectral and polarization properties of VUV-mirrors for experiments at a HHG beamline.

Chapter 28 - On inverse problem for propagation of waves from inclined surfaces.

Chapter 29 - Flux and energy density of a collapsing electromagnetic pulse in the free space.