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Beam sections of transient collisional excitation (TCE) and optical field ionization (OFI) soft X-ray lasers exhibit highly contrasted intensity modulations forming complex patterns. We present model calculations that reproduce these experimental observations both qualitatively and quantitatively. The low spatial coherence, high longitudinal coherence and short pulse duration of the source are shown to control the visibility of the beam structures. Besides, simple relationships relating the spatial and temporal characteristics of the emitting source to the main features of the beam small-scale structures can be derived.
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Guilbaud, O. et al. (2007). Origin of Microstructures in Picosecond X-Ray Laser Beams. In: Nickles, P., Janulewicz, K. (eds) X-Ray Lasers 2006. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 115. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6018-2_8
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