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Tabletop X-ray lasers

The application of chirped pulse amplification may overcome existing drawbacks of X-ray lasers and could lead to intensities that rival large free-electron-laser facilities.

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Figure 1: Sketch of the CPA principle.

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Nagler, B. Tabletop X-ray lasers. Nature Photon 6, 719–720 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2012.267

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