Generation of polarization control of plasma X-ray laser by strong magnetic field

Hasegawa, Noboru; Kawachi, Tetsuya; Sasaki, Akira; Kishimoto, Maki; Tanaka, Momoko; Ochi, Yoshihiro; Nishikino, Masaharu; Kunieda, Yuichi; Iwamae, Atsushi*; Yoneda, Hitoki*

We tried to generate the circularly polarized X-ray laser by use of the high power pulse magnet system. There are three magnetic sub-levels at lower state of the collisional excitation X-ray laser transition. For example, nickel-like X-ray laser transition (4d (m = 0) - 4p (m = -1, 0, +1)), the polarization from each transitions are right-handed circular (m = -1), left-handed circular (m = +1), and linear (m = 0) along to the quantization axis. If the quantization axis were decided by the magnetic field from the outside of the X-ray laser medium, the circularly polarized X-ray laser can be extracted. In this study, we tried to generate the circularly polarized X-ray laser by using the nickel-like molybdenum X-ray laser medium (18.9 nm) with 20 Tesla magnetic field generated by the pulse power magnet system.