Was the Livermore X-Ray Laser Pumped by Recombination?
- 28 October 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 55 (18) , 1877-1879
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.55.1877
Abstract
We demonstrate that recombination pumping following rapid radiative cooling of an overstripped selenium plasma can quantitatively account for the observed gains of the Se xxv transitions in the recent successful Livermore x-ray-laser experiments. The absence of gain in the transition, hitherto unexplained, is fully consistent with this scenario.
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