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A high-intensity highly coherent soft X-ray femtosecond laser seeded by a high harmonic beam
Philippe Zeitoun
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Gabriel Faivre
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Stéphane Sebban
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Tomas Mocek
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A. Hallou
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Marta Fajardo
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D. Aubert
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Philippe Balcou
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Frédéric Burgy
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D. Douillet
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S. Kazamias
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G. de Lachèze-Murel
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T. Lefrou
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S. Le Pape
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P. Mercère
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Hamed Merdji
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Anne-Sophie Morlens
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Jean-Philippe Rousseau
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C. Valentin
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Philippe Zeitoun 1
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Gabriel Faivre 1
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Stéphane Sebban 1
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Tomas Mocek 1
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A. Hallou 1
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Marta Fajardo 2
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D. Aubert 3
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Philippe Balcou 1
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S. Kazamias 4
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Anne-Sophie Morlens 1
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C. Valentin 1
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LOA - Laboratoire d'optique appliquée (828, boulevard des Maréchaux 91762 Palaiseau Cedex - France)
- CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique : UMR7639 (France)
- X - École polytechnique (École polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau Cedex - France)
- ENSTA Paris - École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées (828, boulevard des Maréchaux 91762 Palaiseau Cedex - France)
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Centro de Física dos Plasmas (Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisboa - Portugal)
- IST - Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (Av. Rovisco Pais, 1 1049-001 Lisboa - Portugal)
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DAM/DIF - DAM Île-de-France (CEA Bruyères-le-Châtel 91297 Arpajon cedex - France)
- DAM - Direction des Applications Militaires : DAM/DIF (France)
- CEA - Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives : DAM (Centre de Saclay Centre de Grenoble Centre de Cadarache etc - France)
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LIXAM - Laboratoire d'interaction du rayonnement X avec la matière (bat. 350 91405 ORSAY CEDEX - France)
- UP11 - Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (Bâtiment 300 - 91405 Orsay cedex - France)
- CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique : UMR8624 (France)
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LULI - Laboratoire pour l'utilisation des lasers intenses (LULI, École Polytechnique, route de Saclay 91128 Palaiseau Cedex, France LULI, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) 3 rue Galilée 9420 Ivry-sur-Seine, France - France)
- Université Paris-Saclay (Espace Technologique, Bat. Discovery - RD 128 - 2e ét., 91190 Saint-Aubin - France)
- UPMC - Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (4 place Jussieu - 75005 Paris - France)
- CEA - Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives : DAM/DIF (Centre de Saclay Centre de Grenoble Centre de Cadarache etc - France)
- X - École polytechnique (École polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau Cedex - France)
- CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique : UMR7605 (France)
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SPAM - Service des Photons, Atomes et Molécules (Direction des Sciences de la Matière CEA Saclay, Bâtiment 522 F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette - France)
- CEA - Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives : DSM/IRAMIS (Centre de Saclay Centre de Grenoble Centre de Cadarache etc - France)
Abstract : Synchrotrons have for decades provided invaluable sources of soft X-rays, the application of which has led to significant progress in many areas of science and technology. But future applications of soft X-rays—in structural biology, for example—anticipate the need for pulses with much shorter duration (femtoseconds) and much higher energy (millijoules) than those delivered by synchrotrons. Soft X-ray free-electron lasers1 should fulfil these requirements but will be limited in number; the pressure on beamtime is therefore likely to be considerable. Laser-driven soft X-ray sources offer a comparatively inexpensive and widely available alternative, but have encountered practical bottlenecks in the quest for high intensities. Here we establish and characterize a soft X-ray laser chain that shows how these bottlenecks can in principle be overcome. By combining the high optical quality available from high-harmonic laser sources (as a seed beam) with a highly energetic soft X-ray laser plasma amplifier, we produce a tabletop soft X-ray femtosecond laser operating at 10 Hz and exhibiting full saturation, high energy, high coherence and full polarization. This technique should be readily applicable on all existing laser-driven soft X-ray facilities.
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- DOI : 10.1038/nature02883
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Philippe Zeitoun, Gabriel Faivre, Stéphane Sebban, Tomas Mocek, A. Hallou, et al.. A high-intensity highly coherent soft X-ray femtosecond laser seeded by a high harmonic beam. Nature, Nature Publishing Group, 2004, 431, pp.426-429. ⟨10.1038/nature02883⟩. ⟨hal-00522630⟩
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