Gain dynamics in a soft X-ray laser ampli er perturbed by a strong injected X-ray eld
- Colorado State University, Fort Collins
- Laboratoire de Physique des Gaz et des Gaz et des Plasmas
- ORNL
- Laboratoire d’Optique Applique´e, ENSTA, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
- École Polytechnique
Seeding soft X-ray plasma ampli ers with high harmonics has been demonstrated to generate high-brightness soft X-ray laser pulses with full spatial and temporal coherence. The interaction between the injected coherent eld and the swept-gain medium has been modelled. However, no exper- iment has been conducted to probe the gain dynamics when perturbed by a strong external seed eld. Here, we report the rst X-ray pump X-ray probe measurement of the nonlinear response of a plasma ampli er perturbed by a strong soft X-ray ultra-short pulse. We injected a sequence of two time-delayed high-harmonic pulses (l518.9 nm) into a collisionally excited nickel-like molybdenum plasma to measure with femto-second resolution the gain depletion induced by the saturated ampli cation of the high-harmonic pump and its subsequent recovery. The measured fast gain recovery in 1.5 1.75 ps con rms the possibility to generate ultra-intense, fully phase-coherent soft X-ray lasers by chirped pulse ampli cation in plasma ampli ers.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE; Work for Others (WFO)
- DOE Contract Number:
- DE-AC05-00OR22725
- OSTI ID:
- 1132357
- Journal Information:
- Nature Photonics, Vol. 8, Issue 5; ISSN 1749--4885
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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