Coherent light generators – Short wavelength laser
Patent
1989-10-18
1991-05-14
Gonzalez, Frank
Coherent light generators
Short wavelength laser
372 25, 372102, 372 70, 372 72, H01S 330
Patent
active
050162500
ABSTRACT:
An X-ray laser (10), and related methodology, are disclosed wherein an X-ray laser target (12) is illuminated with a first pulse of optical laser radiation (14) of relatively long duration having scarcely enough energy to produce a narrow and linear cool plasma of uniform composition (38). A second, relatively short pulse of optical laser radiation (18) is uniformly swept across the length, from end to end, of the plasma (38), at about the speed of light, to consecutively illuminate continuously succeeding portions of the plasma (38) with optical laser radiation having scarcely enough energy to heat, ionize, and invert them into the continuously succeeding portions of an X-ray gain medium. This inventive double pulse technique results in a saving of more than two orders of magnitude in driving optical laser energy, when compared to the conventional single pulse approach.
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Matthews Dennis L.
Rosen Mordecai D.
Carnahan L. E.
Gonzalez Frank
Morse Susan S.
Moser William R.
Sartorio Henry P.
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