High-resolution spectroscopy of the nickel-like molybdenum X-ray laser toward the generation of circularly polarized X-ray laser

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

The precise knowledge about the spectral width of the X-ray laser line is important to generate the circularly polarized X-ray laser. There are three magnetic sub-levels at lower state of the collisional excitation X-ray laser transition of the nickel-like ion X-ray laser medium. The polarization of each transition is circular or linear. Therefore the circularly polarized X-ray laser could be extracted by the influence of the Zeeman effect if the X-ray laser medium was under the external magnetic field. The strength of the magnetic field required for the circularly polarized X-ray laser is determined by the spectral width of the X-ray laser. Only a few measurements of the spectral width of the laser line have been reported, because the spectral width of the X-ray laser is so narrow that the required spectral resolution is quite high. In this study, we took the nickel-like molybdenum X-ray laser as an example and succeeded the measurement of the spectral width of the X-ray laser.