X-Ray Lasers 2014, 1st ed. 2016
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on X-Ray Lasers
Springer Proceedings in Physics Series, Vol. 169

These proceedings comprise invited and contributed papers presented at the 14th International Conference on X-Ray Lasers (ICXRL 2014). This conference is part of a continuing series dedicated to recent developments and applications of x-ray lasers and other coherent x-ray sources with attention to supporting technologies and instrumentation.

New results in the generation of intense, coherent x-rays and progress toward practical devices and their applications in numerous fields are reported. Areas of research in plasma-based x-ray lasers, 4th generation accelerator-based sources and higher harmonic generation, and other x-ray generation schemes are covered.

The scope of ICXRL 2014 included, but was not limited to:

• Laser-pumped X-ray lasers
• Discharge excitation and other X-ray laser pumping methods
• Injection/seeding of X-ray amplifiers
• New lasing transitions and novel X-ray laser schemes
• High Harmonic sources-Free-electron laser generation in the XUV and X-ray range
• Novel schemes for coherent XUV and X-ray generation
• XUV and X-ray optics and metrology-Driving laser technology
• Theory and modeling of X-ray gain medium and beam characteristics
• Applications of high brightness and ultrashort X-ray sources

X-Ray Lasers

1- Progress and Prospects of Coherent X-ray Research using High Power Lasers in Japan Atomic Energy Agency.  (Invited)

T. Kawachi, M. Nishikino, A. Sasaki, M. Ishino, N. Hasegawa, T. Imazono, T. A. Pikuz, A Y. Faenov, M. Magnitskiy, M. Maruyama, T. Tomita, T. Suemoto, A. S. Pirozhkov, S. V. Bulanov, H. Kiriyama, M. Kando, M. Yamagiwa, K. Kondo, P. Bolton and Y. Kato

2- Advances in High Average Power, 100 Hz Repetition Rate Table-top Soft X-ray Lasers. (Invited)

Brendan A. Reagan, Cory Baumgarten, Keith A. Wernsing, Mark Berrill, Mark Woolston, Lukasz Urbanski, Wei Li, Mario C. Marconi, Carmen S. Menoni, and Jorge J. Rocca

3- Possibility of Recombination Gain Increase in CV Ions at 4.0nm via Coherence. (Invited)

Y. Luo, A. Morozov, H.Xia D.Gordon, P.Sprangle,  A.Svidzinsky, M.Scully, S. Suckewer

4- Overview of development of laser driven secondary sources at PALS and ELI.  (Invited)

Kozlova M, Nejdl J., M. Albrecht, Sebban S., Gautier J., Ta Phuoc K., Klisnick A., Le Marec A., F. Tissandier

5- Spectral properties of collisional XUV lasers for the amplification of femtosecond pulses.  (Invited)

A Klisnick, A. Le Marec, L. Meng, O. Larroche. O. Guilbaud, M. Kozlova, J. Nejdl, A. Calisti

6- Transient collisionally excited x-ray lasers pumped with one long and two short pulses. (Invited)

D. Ursescu, G. Cojocaru, R. Ungureanu, R Banici, L. Ionel, S. Simion, R. Dabu, J. Tümmler, R. Jung, H. Stiel, Olivier Delmas, Moana Pittman, Olivier Guilbaud, Sophie Kazamias, Kevin Cassou, Julien Demailly, Olivier Neveu, Elsa Baynard, David Ros, Andrea Le Marec, Sameh Daboussi,  Li Lu, A. Klisnick, P. Zeitoun

7- Seeded operation of a Ne-like Titanium soft x-ray laser.  (Invited).

O. Guilbaud, S. Kazamias, K. Cassou, O. Delmas, J. Demailly, O. Neveu, D. Ros, E. Baynard, M. Pittman, M. Shazad, A. Rossal, G.J. Tallents, A Le Marec, A. Klisnick, L. Lu, Ph. Zeitoun, G.V. Cojocaru, R. G. Ungureanu, R. A. Banici, D. Ursescu

8- Output beam polarisation of X-ray lasers with transient inversion.  (Invited).

K. A. Janulewicz, C. M. Kim, B. Matouš, H. Stiel, M. Nishikino, N. Hasegawa, T. Kawachi

9- Improved sub-10 nm Ni-like lasing by varying the slope of the traveling-wave velocity. F. Jia, M. Siegrist, F. Staub, J. Balmer.

10- Temporal response of seeded XUV lasers under different amplification regimes—Inversion density threshold.  A. LeMarec, O. Larroche, L. Meng, A. Klisnick

11- Self-photopumped x-ray lasers from elements in the Ne-like and Ni-like ionization state. M. Siegrist, F. Jia, J.E. Balmer

12- Pump-Probe Experiment for Temporal Profile Measurement of Plasma X-Ray Laser.  S. Namba, N. Hasegawa, M. Kishimoto, M. Nishikino, T. Kawachi.

13- Capillary Discharge X-ray Lasers: the Quest for sub-10nm Lasers. (Invited).

V. N. Shlyaptsev, G. Avaria, M. Grisham,  J. Li,  F.G. Tomasel, M. Busquet, M. Woolston, J.J. Rocca

New X-Ray Sources and Relativistic Phenomena

14- Charge emission and x-ray emission from a vibrated Cu foil.

F. L. Tanzella, P. L. Hagelstein, J. Bao, M. C. H. McKubre

15- Isolation of Coherent Synchrotron Emission during Relativistic Laser Plasma Interactions.

B. Dromey, D. Jung, M. Yeung, T. Dzelzainis, S. G. Rykovanov, H. Ruhl, D. Habs, J. Schreiber, C. L. S. Lewis, M. Zepf

16- Polarization gating in relativistic laser-solid interactions.

M. Yeung, M. Zepf, B. Dromey, S. Cousens, M. Coughlan, T. Dzelzainis, S. Rykovanov, J. Bin, W. Ma, C. Kreuzer, D. Kiefer, J. Schreiber, J. Meyer-ter-Vehn, P. Foster, M. Streeter, C. Rödel, J. Bierbach, S. Kuschel, E. Eckner, G. Paulus

17- Progress and Prospects of a Compton X-ray Source Driven by a High-power CO2 Laser.

Igor Pogorelsky

18- X-ray Generation from Ultra-High Energy Density Relativistic Plasmas by Ultrafast Laser Irradiation of Nanowire Arrays 

M. A. Purvis, V. N. Shlyaptsev, R. Hollinger, C. Bargsten, A. Pukhov, D. Keiss, A. Towsend, Y. Wang, S. Wang, L. Yin, A. Prieto, M. Berrill, B. Luther, J. J. Rocca.

19- Ionization of Xenon to the Nickel-like stage and beyond in micro-capillary plasma columns heated by ultrafast current pulses. G. Avaria, M. Grisham, J. Li, F.G. Tomasel, V.N. Shlyaptsev, M. Busquet, M. Woolston, J.J. Rocca

20- Progress of laser-driven betatron radiation in IOP.  (Invited)

L. Chen, W. C. Yan, Y. Ma, Z. M. Sheng, J. Zhang

21- A new approach to theory for the Rhodes group experiments with channeled pulse excitation in Xe and Kr clusters.  P.L. Hagelstein, I.U. Chaudhary

High Harmonics and Attosecond Science

22- Attosecond dynamics of parametric amplification at 11 nm.

J. Seres, E. Seres, B. Landgraf, B. Ecker, B. Aurand, A. Hoffmann,  G. Winkler, S. Namba, T. Kuehl, and C. Spielmann

23- Coherent soft-X-ray pulses at multi MHz repetition rates using enhancement cavities. (Invited)

E. Fill, I. Pupeza, S. Holzberger, H. Carstens, N. Lilienfein and F. Krausz

24- Generation of bright Circular Polarized High Harmonics for Magneto-Optical Investigations.

P. Grychtol, O. Kfir­, R. Knut, E. Turgut, D. Zusin, D. Popmintchev, T. Popmintchev, H. Nembach, J. Shaw, A. Fleicher, H. Kapteyn, M. Murnane and O. Cohen.

25- Electron motion control in HHG process with multi-color laser field.

Zhinan Zeng, Pengfei Wei, Ruxin Li, and Zhizhan Xu.

FEL-based X-Ray Sources

26- Stimulated X-Ray Raman Scattering with Free-Electron Laser Sources.  (Invited).

N. Rohringer, V. Kimberg, C. Weninger, A. Sanchez-Gonzalez, A. Lutman, T. Maxwell, C. Bostedt, S. Carron Monterro, A. O. Lindah, M. Ilchen, R. N. Coffee, J. D. Bozek, J. Krzywinski, T. Kierspe,  T. Mullins, J. Küpper, B. Erk, D. Rolles, O. D. Mücke,                   R. A. London, M. Purvis, D. Ryan, J. J. Rocca, R. Feife, R. Squibb, V. Zhaunerchyk,  C. Såthe, M. Agåker, M. Mucke, J. Nordgren,  J. E. Rubensson.

27- Comparing the gain of the Ne K-α inner-shell X-ray laser using the XFEL to drive the kinetics with photo-ionization versus photo-excitation.

Joseph Nilsen

X-Ray/EUV Imaging

28- Reflection mode imaging with extreme-ultraviolet light from a high harmonic source.

D.F. Gardner, B. Zhang, D.E. Adams, M.D. Seaberg, E.R. Shanblatt, M. Murnane, H. Kapteyn

29- Volumetric composition imaging at the nanoscale by soft X-ray laser ablation mass spectrometry.  I. Kuznetsov, J. Filevich, M. Woolston, G.L. Gasper, D. Carlton, W. Chao, E.H. Anderson, E.R. Bernstein, D.C. Click, J.J. Rocca, C.S> Menoni.   [paper will follow the week of February 2-6]

30- Time-resolved holography with a table top Soft X-ray Laser.

M.C. Marconi, N. Monserud, E. Malm,  P. Wachulak, W. Chao.

31- X-ray holography for imaging large specimen with a Ag x-ray laser.

K. H. Lee, H. Yun, J. H. Sung, S. K. Lee, T. M. Jeong, H. T. Kim,

C. H. Nam.

32- Development of x-ray sources using intense laser pulses and their applications to x-ray microscopy. (Invited).

H. T. Kim, S. Danylyuk, S. Brose, K. Bergmann, and L. Juschkin

33- Keyhole Reflection-mode Coherent Diffractive Imaging of Nano-patterned Surfaces Using a Tabletop EUV Source.

Elisabeth Shanblatt, Matthew Seaberg, Bosheng Zhang, Dennis Gardner, Margaret Murnane, Henry Kapteyn, Daniel Adams.

34- Nanoscale Imaging with Soft X-Ray Lasers

C.S. Menoni,  J. Nejdl,  N. Monserud, I. D. Howlett, D. Carlton, E.H.  Anderson, W. Chao, M. C. Marconi

35- Nanoscale imaging using coherent and incoherent laboratory based soft x-ray sources. (Invited)

H. Stiel, A. Dehlinger,  K.A.  Janulewicz, R. Jung, H. Legall, C. Pratsch, S. Rehbein, C. Seim, J. Tümmler.

36- Coherent diffractive imaging with a laboratory-scale,  gas-discharge plasma extreme ultraviolet light source.  J. Bußmann, M. Odstrčil, R. Bresenitz, D. Rudolf, J. Miao, W.S. Brocklesby and L. Juschkin

37- On the optical transforms in the Fourier space for simulation of coherent imaging of tilted objects.  (Invited).

I.A. Artyukov, R. M. Feshchenko, N. L. Popov, A. V. Vinogradov.

EUV Lithography

38- EUV research at Berkeley Lab: enabling technologies and applications. (Invited).

P. Naulleau, C. N. Anderson, W. Chao, P. Fischer, K. A. Goldberg, E. M. Gullikson, R. Miyakawa

39- Table top Soft X-ray Laser used for fabrication of periodic nanostructures.

W. Li, D. Patel, W. Chao, C.S. Menoni, M.C. Marconi.

40- Applications for coherent narrow-band sources in EUV lithography.

R. Miyakawa, P. Naulleau

41- Lensless proximity EUV lithography with a Xenon gas discharge plasma radiation.

H. Kim, S. Danylyuk, S. Brose, K. Bergmann, and L. Juschkin

Characterization, Pump Lasers, Optics

42- Wave Front Study of Fully Coherent Soft X-Ray Laser Using Hartmann Sensor.

L. Li, Y. Wang, S. Wang, E. Oliva, L. Yin, T. T. T. Le, S. Daboussi, D. Ros, G. Maynard, S. Sebban, B. Hu, J. J. Rocca, and Ph. Zeitoun

43- Recent advances in multilayer reflective optics for EUV/X-ray sources. (Invited)

Regina Soufli

44- Spectral and coherence properties of the Ne-like Zn X-ray laser at PALS.

A Le Marec, L. Meng, M. Kozlova, J. Nejdl, F. Tissandier, O. Guilbaud and A. Klisnick.

45- On stability of exact transparent boundary condition for the parabolic equation in rectangular computational domain. R.M. Feshchenko

46- Gain Dynamics in Injection-seeded Soft X-ray Laser Plasma Amplifiers. S. Wang,Y.Wang, E.Oliva, L. Lu, M.Berrill, L. Yin, J. Nejdl, B. Luther, C. Proux, T.T. Thuy Le, J. Dunn, D. Ros, Ph. Zeitoun, J.J. Rocca

X-Ray Laser Material Interaction

47- Application of Soft X-Ray Lasers to Neutral Cluster Chemistry. (Invited)

E. R. Bernstein

48- Application of Laser Plasma Sources of Soft X-rays and Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) in Imaging, Processing Materials and Photoionization Studies. (Invited)

H. Fiedorowicz, I.U. Ahad, A. Bartnik, T. Fok, R. Jarocki, B. Korczyc, J. Kostecki, A.  Szczurek, M. Szczurek, P. Wachulak, Ł. Węgrzyński

49- Rapid calculation of scattering factors for partially ionized plasmas in the EUV.

A K. Rossall, G. J. Tallents

50- Transmission measurement for highly transparent metallic sodium in the extreme ultraviolet spectral range: new application of an intense EUV sources.

H. Daido, Y. Suzuki, T. Kawachi, A. S. Pirozhkov.

51- Opacity bleaching by extreme ultraviolet radiation incident on solid density targets.  V. Aslanyan, G.J. Talents

52- Ablation plume induced by laser EUV radiation.  O. Frolov, K. Kolacek, J. Schmidt, J. Straus.

53- Study of Optical Emission during Spallative Ablation Induced by Soft X-Ray Laser Pulses. M. Ishino, M. Nishikino, N. Hasegawa, T. Pikuz, I. Skobelev, A. Faenov, M. Yamagiwa, T. Kawachi

54- Diagnosis of radiation heating in iron buried layer targets.  M. Shahzad, O. Culfa, A.K. Rossall, G.J. Tallents, L.A. Wilson, S.J. Rose, O. Guilbaud, S. Kazamias, M. Pittman, K. Cassou, J. Demailly, O. Delmas, A. Mestrallain, M. Fajardo, D. Ros.

Dr. Jorge Rocca
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523
USA

Dr. Carmen Menoni
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523
USA

Dr. Mario Marconi
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523
USA

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