Demonstration of a soft-X-ray laser at 13.9 nm with full spatial coherence

Nishikino, Masaharu; Tanaka, Momoko; Nagashima, Keisuke; Kishimoto, Maki; Kado, Masataka; Kawachi, Tetsuya; Sukegawa, Kota*; Ochi, Yoshihiro; Hasegawa, Noboru; Kato, Yoshiaki

Physical Review A, 68(6), p.061802_1 - 061802_4, 2003/12

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.68.061802

We demonstrate a generation of highly coherent X-ray laser at 13.9 nm by oscillator-amplifier configuration with two targets. In the oscillator-amplifier configuration, the seeding X-ray laser beam from the first target is injected into the plasma amplifier at the second target. When the X-ray laser beam is not affected by refraction during propagation in the amplifier, the X-ray laser beam with small divergence and high coherence is generated. The observed X-ray laser beam has 0.2 mrad of the diffraction limited divergence and the full spatial coherence.