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X-Ray Laser World Wide Progress

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Laser Science and Technology

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The quest for the demonstration of an x-ray wavelength laser took ~20 years with successful, unambiguous results coming only recently from research efforts in the USA1–3, Great Britain4, and France . Numerous reviews6–8 have been written on the subject, but the most current are actual accounts of various groups’ research in “conference proceedings”9–11. In this manuscript, I will describe the various types of successful lasing schemes employed to date, comment on their status and speculate on their future development. I will not be describing all attempts to make the x-ray laser, nor listing an account of various theoretical designs, or inversion schemes that are not currently used. Successful x-ray lasers have to date, only been demonstrated by forming a plasma with a high power optical or infrared wavelength laser.

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  1. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California, Livermore, CA, 94550, USA

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  1. Hughes Research Laboratories, Malibu, California, USA

    A. N. Chester

  2. Institute of Spectroscopy, Troitsk, Moscow Region, USSR

    V. S. Letokhov

  3. The Second University of Rome, Rome, Italy

    S. Martellucci

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Matthews, D.L. (1988). X-Ray Laser World Wide Progress. In: Chester, A.N., Letokhov, V.S., Martellucci, S. (eds) Laser Science and Technology. Ettore Majorana International Science Series, vol 35. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0378-8_2

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