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Preliminary studies of radiation coupling between remote soft X-ray laser amplifiers

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Coupling of a soft X-ray laser beam with a relaying concave mirror in a sequentially pumped amplifier geometry using the Ne-like Ge system has been studied experimentally. Preliminary observations indicate an increase in the spatial coherence of the amplified relayed beam. In addition, near-field imaging of one of the amplifier plasmas shows a double-lobed intensity pattern of the emergent beam indicating refractive guiding of the amplified beam with components both normal and tangential to the target surface.

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  1. Department of Pure and Applied Physics, Queen's University of Belfast, BT7 1NN, Belfast, UK

    G. Cairns, C. L. S. Lewis, A. G. MacPhee & D. Neely

  2. Department of Physics, University of Essex, CO4 2SQ, Colchester, UK

    M. Holden, J. Krishnan & G. J. Tallents

  3. Central Laser Facility, Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory, OX11 0QX, Chilton, Oxon, UK

    M. H. Key & P. N. Norreys

  4. Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, OX1 3PU, Oxford, UK

    M. H. Key, C. G. Smith & J. Zhang

  5. Department of Computational Physics, University of York, YO1 5DD, York, UK

    P. B. Holden, G. J. Pert, J. Plowes & S. A. Ramsden

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Cairns, G., Lewis, C.L.S., MacPhee, A.G. et al. Preliminary studies of radiation coupling between remote soft X-ray laser amplifiers. Appl. Phys. B 58, 51–56 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01081713

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