Short wavelength laser systems for applications
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Very short wavelength lasers have many potential scientific and technological applications. A practical extreme ultraviolet (XUV) laser system has been developed using the Xe Auger laser at 109 nm. This system is the first XUV laser system pumped by a standard, commercially available, Nd:YAG laser system at a high repetition rate. The Xe laser is pumped by the soft x-rays generated by a laser-produced plasma. A grazing incidence, traveling-wave pumping geometry is used to reduce the pump energy required to achieve saturated energy outputs. A total equivalent small signal gain of exp(25) has been achieved with a 20 cm long gain region. The maximum output energy of this system is about 1
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Sharp, Tracy Elizabeth. "Short wavelength laser systems for applications." (1993) Diss., Rice University. https://hdl.handle.net/1911/16666.