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High-brightness optical-field-ionization collisional-excitation extreme-ultraviolet lasing pumped by a 100-TW laser system in an optically preformed plasma waveguide

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Recent study on optical-field-ionization collisional-excitation extreme-ultraviolet lasing of Ni-like krypton at 32.8 nm pumped by a 100-TW laser system with an optically preformed plasma waveguide is reported. By using a 9-mm-long pure krypton plasma waveguide fabricated with the axicon-ignitor-heater scheme, the 32.8-nm extreme-ultraviolet laser provided an average output of 1012 photons/pulse at pump energy of 1 J, more than one order of magnitude enhancement relative to the previous results with the same scheme at pump energy of 235 mJ. It is also found the far-field pattern of laser beams varies from a single peak profile at low pump energy to an annular profile at high pump energy due to over-ionization of krypton ions at the center of the plasma channel.

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    B. K. Chen, Y.-C. Ho, T.-S. Hung, Y.-L. Chang, M.-C. Chou, S.-Y. Chen, H.-H. Chu, P.-H. Lin & J. Wang

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    B. K. Chen, Y.-C. Ho, T.-S. Hung, Y.-L. Chang, M.-C. Chou, S.-Y. Chen, P.-H. Lin & J. Wang

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  6. Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 10617, Taiwan

    J. Wang

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Chen, B.K., Ho, YC., Hung, TS. et al. High-brightness optical-field-ionization collisional-excitation extreme-ultraviolet lasing pumped by a 100-TW laser system in an optically preformed plasma waveguide. Appl. Phys. B 106, 817–822 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-011-4810-y

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