Method and apparatus for producing durationally short ultraviolet or x-ray laser pulses
Abstract
A method and apparatus is disclosed for producing ultraviolet or x- ray laser pulses of short duration. An ultraviolet or x-ray laser pulse of long duration is progressively refracted, across the surface of an opaque barrier, by a streaming plasma that is produced by illuminating a solid target with a pulse of conventional line focused high power laser radiation. The short pulse of ultraviolet or x-ray laser radiation, which may be amplified to high power, is separated out by passage through a slit aperture in the opaque barrier.
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 6868292
- Patent Number(s):
- 6046020
- Assignee:
- LLNL; EDB-88-178979
- Patent Classifications (CPCs):
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C - CHEMISTRY C12 - BIOCHEMISTRY C12Q - MEASURING OR TESTING PROCESSES INVOLVING ENZYMES, NUCLEIC ACIDS OR MICROORGANISMS
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-48
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: Portions of this document are illegible in microfiche products
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 42 ENGINEERING; PULSE AMPLIFIERS; DESIGN; X-RAY LASERS; INVENTIONS; LASER RADIATION; PLASMA; PULSE TECHNIQUES; AMPLIFIERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT; LASERS; RADIATIONS; 420300* - Engineering- Lasers- (-1989)
Citation Formats
MacGowan, B J, Matthews, D L, and Trebes, J E. Method and apparatus for producing durationally short ultraviolet or x-ray laser pulses. United States: N. p., 1987.
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MacGowan, B J, Matthews, D L, & Trebes, J E. Method and apparatus for producing durationally short ultraviolet or x-ray laser pulses. United States.
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"Method and apparatus for producing durationally short ultraviolet or x-ray laser pulses". United States.
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title = {Method and apparatus for producing durationally short ultraviolet or x-ray laser pulses},
author = {MacGowan, B J and Matthews, D L and Trebes, J E},
abstractNote = {A method and apparatus is disclosed for producing ultraviolet or x- ray laser pulses of short duration. An ultraviolet or x-ray laser pulse of long duration is progressively refracted, across the surface of an opaque barrier, by a streaming plasma that is produced by illuminating a solid target with a pulse of conventional line focused high power laser radiation. The short pulse of ultraviolet or x-ray laser radiation, which may be amplified to high power, is separated out by passage through a slit aperture in the opaque barrier.},
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journal = {},
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place = {United States},
year = {1987},
month = {5}
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