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The availability of terawatt KrF* laser systems is expanding capabilities to explore new atomic processes at high intensity in the ultraviolet. By utilizing the nonlinear absorption of laser energy into a target material and the relativistic motion of electrons in the high charge state plasma produced by intensities exceeding 1019 W/cm2, it should be possible to exceed the deposition power density necessary to achieve amplification in the x-ray region.
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McPherson, A. et al. (1988). Discussion of Limiting Deposition Power Densities in Laser Target Materials. In: Bandrauk, A.D. (eds) Atomic and Molecular Processes with Short Intense Laser Pulses. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0967-3_20
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