Picosecond soft-x-ray pulses from a high-intensity laser-plasma source
- 15 July 1996
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Letters
- Vol. 21 (14) , 1040-1042
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.21.001040
Abstract
We report time-resolved spectroscopic analysis of laser-produced plasma x-ray sources. Plasmas produced by a 400-fs 1-TW tabletop laser are characterized with a transmission grating spectrometer coupled to a soft-x-ray streak camera. Soft-x-ray radiation in the 1–6-nm range with durations of 2–7 ps is observed for copper and tantalum plasmas. The effect of incident laser energy on the x-ray pulse duration is also investigated.Keywords
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