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The capability of intense femtosecond pulses to create hard X-ray short-duration plasma-emitters has allowed time-resolved X-ray studies with sub-picosecond resolution in different branches of physic, material science and biology. Most of these studies were performed in a single-shot or 10 Hz regime with large multi-stage laser facilities and intensities above 1016 W/cm2. For ultrashort X-ray sources to be more widely used they must operate in a more continuous regime. Most applications, that can be developed, will benefit from higher average power and high repetition rate, when low-intensity signal averaging is necessary. In the past few years there have been rapid improvements in high power Ti:sapphire femtosecond lasers systems operated at kiloherz repetition rates, some capable to generate peak intensities of 1018 W/cm2 [1]. This systems are a good candidate to be used as a primary source for laser driven plasma X-ray sources.
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Zhavoronkov, N. et al. (2004). High Repetition Rate Femtosecond Laser Driven Hard X-Ray Source and its Application for Diffraction Experiments. In: Krausz, F., Korn, G., Corkum, P., Walmsley, I.A. (eds) Ultrafast Optics IV. Springer Series in OPTICAL SCIENCES, vol 95. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34756-1_41
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