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X-ray laser plasma amplifiers

Nature Photonics volume 8, pages 352–354 (2014)Cite this article

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The realization of an X-ray laser plasma amplifier using a stretched X-ray pulse leads to higher intensity and better quality X-ray laser pulses.

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Figure 1: Schematic showing electron density contours and seed X-ray trajectories in the plasma amplifier10.

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  1. Masaharu Nishikino and Tetsuya Kawachi are at the Quantum Beam Science Directorate, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, 8-1-7 Umemidai, Kizugawa, Kyoto 619-0215, Japan,

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Nishikino, M., Kawachi, T. X-ray laser plasma amplifiers. Nature Photon 8, 352–354 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2014.86

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