Soft-x-ray amplification at 50.3 å in nickellike ytterbium

B. J. Mac Gowan; S. Maxon; C. J. Keane; R. A. London; Dennis L Matthews; D. A. Whelan

doi:10.1364/JOSAB.5.001858

Soft-x-ray amplification at 50.3 å in nickellike ytterbium

B. J. Mac Gowan, S. Maxon, C. J. Keane, R. A. London, Dennis L Matthews, D. A. Whelan

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Nickellike ions of ytterbium (Yb⁴²⁺) have been produced in long exploding foil plasmas. The plasmas were formed by short-pulse laser irradiation of thin foils of ytterbium with line-focused high-intensity 0.53-, um light. Soft-x-ray line emissions at 50.26 and 56.09 Å are identified as 4d-4p, J = 0-1 transitions in the nickellike ionization stage of ytterbium. The energy emitted in the line at 50.26 Å along the axis of the plasma is observed to increase nonlinearly with plasma length, consistent with a small-signal gain of 1.2 ± 0.4 cm-1.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1858-1863
Number of pages	6
Journal	Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics
Volume	5
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAB.5.001858
State	Published - 1988
Externally published	Yes

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