Output beam polarisation of X-ray lasers with transient inversion

過渡利得励起方式軟X線レーザーにおける偏光生成機構の解明

Janulewicz, K. A.*; Kim, C. M.*; Steil, H.*; 河内 哲哉; 錦野 将元; 長谷川 登

Janulewicz, K. A.*; Kim, C. M.*; Steil, H.*; Kawachi, Tetsuya; Nishikino, Masaharu; Hasegawa, Noboru

放射光光源で偏光特性を校正した軟X線領域用の薄膜ビームスプリッターを開発し、これを用いることで、過渡利得励起方式におけるニッケル様銀プラズマ軟X線レーザーの偏光状態の精密計測を行った。軟X線レーザーの強度及びビーム広がり角から、軟X線レーザー媒質(プラズマ)の状態を求めることにより、偏光の発生するメカニズムを明らかにすることに成功した。

We describe measurement results on the polarization state of amplified spontaneous emission signal from a collisionally pumped Ni-like Ag soft X-ray laser with a transient inversion. The result obtained with a calibrated membrane beam splitter as a polarization state (P-state) selector shows that dominance one of the mutually perpendicular electric field components (p- or s-) in the output signal depends on the hydrodynamic state of the plasma medium. Two different hydrodynamic states were referred as a low gain and high gain regimes and the allocated P-states had dominant s- and p-component, respectively. It was also shown that due to correlations between p- and s-components in the process of coherent amplification of noise, correct description of the polarization state requires applying the generalized theory of polarization and formulated there the generalized degree of polarization.