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We report recent experimental progress in the characterization of the temporal coherence and related spectral linewidth of plasma-based soft X-ray lasers (SXRL). New measurements were carried out with two types of SXRLs pumped in the quasi-steady state (QSS) regime, in a capillary-discharge plasma and in a laser-produced plasma. We describe the main results obtained from both experiments and compare them to dedicated numerical simulations. We discuss the results in the context of the possibility to achieve XUV lasers with pulse duration below 1 picosecond.
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Meng, L. et al. (2014). Temporal Coherence and Spectral Linewidth of Neon-Like XUV Lasers Pumped in the Quasi-steady State Regime. In: Sebban, S., Gautier, J., Ros, D., Zeitoun, P. (eds) X-Ray Lasers 2012. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 147. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00696-3_28
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