X-Ray Lasers 2016

Part I. Plasma Based X-Ray Lasers and Applications

1. Overview of Laser-Driven Coherent Short-Wavelength Sources at PALS and ELI Beamlines
J. Nejdl, M. Kozlová, V. Nefedova, M. Albrecht, M. Krůs, J. Gautier, S. Sebban

2. High Average Power Table-Top Soft X-Ray Lasers Using Diode-Pumped Laser Drivers
J. J. Rocca, B. A. Reagan, C. Baumgarten, M. Pedicone, L. Yin, V. N. Shlyaptsev, Y. Wang, S. Wang, A. Rockwood, M. Berrill, M. C. Marconi, C. S. Menoni

3. Progress and Prospects of X-Ray Laser Research in QST
M. Nishikino, N. Hasegawa, M. Ishino, T. Imazono, A. Sasaki, K. Mikami, T. -H. Dinh, T. Suemoto, S. Namba, A. Ya. Faenov, T. A. Pikuz, S. Ichimaru, M. Hatayama, T. Kawachi

4. DAGON: A 3D Maxwell–Bloch Code
E. Oliva, M. Cotelo, J. C. Escudero, S. Vicens, A. González, P. Velarde

5. Plasma-Source High-Resolution XUV Spectroscopy as Complementary to Beamlines Limitations
F. Barbato, D. Bleiner

6. The Creation of Radiation Dominated Plasmas Using Laboratory X-Ray Lasers
G. J. Tallents, S. Wilson, V. Aslanyan, A. West, A. K. Rossall, C. S. Menoni, J. J. Rocca

7. Plasma Dynamics in Capillary Discharges
P. V. Sasorov

8. MHD Simulation of Various Cross-Section Capillary Discharges
Gennadiy Bagdasarov, P. V. Sasorov, Alexey Boldarev, Olga Olkhovskaya, Anthony Gonsalves, Stepan Sergeevich Bulanov, C. B. Schroeder, E. Esarey, W. P. Leemans, Tadzio Levato, Daniele Margarone, Georg Korn, S. V. Bulanov, Vladimir Gasilov

9. Towards Generation of Sub-fs Pulses Using Lasing to Ground States of H-Like LiIII at 13.5nm and He-Like CV at 4nm
O. Kocharovskaya, T. R. Akhmedzhanov, V. A. Antonov, A. Morozov, A. Goltsov, M. O. Scully, S. Suckewer

10. Numerical Calculation of Gain Coefficient for Recombination X-Ray Lasers in a Carbon Cluster Plasma
H. Kawazome, S. Namba

Part II. Higher Harmonics and FEL Based X-Ray Lasers

11. Investigations on Ultrafast Atomic and Molecular Dynamics with Harmonic Sources
Chang Hee Nam, Hyeok Yun, Kyung Taec Kim, Hyung Taek Kim

12. Characterization of Partially Coherent Ultrashort XUV Pulses
Charles Bourassin-Bouchet

13. High-Order Harmonic Generation by Relativistic Plasma Singularities: The Driving Laser Requirements
A. S. Pirozhkov, T. Zh. Esirkepov, T. A. Pikuz, A. Ya. Faenov, K. Ogura, Y. Hayashi, H. Kotaki, E. N. Ragozin, D. Neely, H. Kiriyama, J. K. Koga, Y. Fukuda, A. Sagisaka, M. Nishikino, T. Imazono, N. Hasegawa, T. Kawachi, H. Daido, Y. Kato, S. V. Bulanov, K. Kondo, M. Kando

14. HHG Beam Wavefront Characterization at 30nm
P. Homer, B. Rus, J. Hrebicek, J. Nejdl

15. Using the XFEL to Drive Gain in K-Shell and L-Shell Systems Using Photoionization and Photoexcitation of Inner Shell Transitions
Joseph Nilsen

16. Superfluorescence/Superradiance in Helium Following Free-Electron Laser Excitation
J. R. Harries, S. Kuma, H. Iwayama, E. Shigemasa

17. In Situ Characterization of XFEL Beam Intensity Distribution and Focusability by High-Resolution LiF Crystal Detector
T. A. Pikuz, A. Ya. Faenov, T. Matsuoka, B. Albertazzi, N. Ozaki, N. Hartely, O. Muray Ricardo Arturo, T. Yabuuchi, H. Habara, S. Matsuyama, K. Yamauchi, Y. Inubushi, T. Togashi, H. Yumoto, Y. Tange, K. Tono, Y. Sato, M. Yabashi, M. Nishikino, T. Kawachi, A. Mitrofanov, S. A. Pikuz, D. Bleiner, A. Grum-Grzhimailo, N. N. Rosanov, N. V. Vysotina, M. Harmand, M. Koenig, K. A. Tanaka, T. Ishikawa, R. Kodama

18. Achieving Laser Wakefield Accelerated Electron Beams of Low Enough Energy Spread for an X-FEL
J. K. Koga, S. V. Bulanov, T. Zh. Esirkepov, M. Kando

19. Proposal for Experiment Systems Using Laser-Driven Heavy Ions and XFELs to Understand Physical Phenomena Occurring Near the Incident Ion Path
Kengo Moribayashi

Part III. Ultrafast X-Rays and Applications

20. Laser-Driven Plasma-Based Incoherent X-Ray Sources at PALS and ELI Beamlines
M. Kozlová, K. Bohaček, V. Horný, K. Ta Phuoc, J. Nejdl, S. Sebban, J. Gautier, M. Krůs, U. Chaulagain

21. Research on Laser Acceleration and Coherent X-Ray Generation Using J-KAREN-P Laser
M. Kando, A. S. Pirozhkov, M. Nishiuchi, H. Kiriyama, A. Kon, H. Sakaki, Y. Fukuda, N. Dover, K. Sekiguchi, K. Nishitani, A. Sagisaka, T. A. Pikuz, A. Ya. Faenov, K. Ogura, Y. Hayashi, H. Kotaki, T. Zh. Esirkepov, K. Huang, N. Nakanii, K. Kondo, J. K. Koga, S. V. Bulanov, K. Kondo

22. X-Rays Driven by Single-Cycle, Petawatt Lasers: A Path to Exawatt Pulses
J. Wheeler, G. Cojocaru, R. Ungureanu, R. Banici, R. Gonin, S. Mironov, M. Serbanescu, R. Dabu, G. Mourou

23. Ultra-intense X-Ray Radiation Photopumping of Exotic States of Matter by Relativistic Laser–Plasma in the Radiation-Dominated Kinetic Regime (RDKR)
A. Ya. Faenov, J. Colgan, S. A. Pikuz, A. Zhidkov, T. A. Pikuz, J. Abdallah, E. Tubman, N. M. H. Butler, R. J. Dance, I. Yu. Skobelev, M. Z. Alkhimova, N. Booth, J. Green, C. Gregory, A. Andreev, M. Nishiuchi, H. Sakaki, A. Sagisaka, A. S. Pirozhkov, K. Ogura, Y. Fukuda, M. Kanasaki, N. Hasegawa, M. Nishikino, M. Kando, T. Kawachi, K. Kondo, P. McKenna, G. J. Tallents, N. Woolsey, R. Kodama

24. Enhanced Coherent Thomson Scattering in the Few-Cycle Regime
Ke Hu, Hui-Chun Wu

25. Plasma Channel Undulator for Narrow-Bandwidth X-Ray Generation
S. G. Rykovanov, J. W. Wang, V. Yu. Kharin, B. Lei, C. B. Schroeder, C. G. R. Geddes, E. Esarey, W. P. Leemans

26. Three-Dimensional Supersonic Sapphire Micronozzles for Laser-Plasma Wakefield Accelerators
V. Tomkus, L. Rimgaila, V. Stankevič, G. Račiukaitis

27. Generating Ultrahigh Brilliance Quasi-monochromatic MeV γ-Rays with High-Quality LWFA Electron Beams
C. H. Yu, R. Qi, W. T. Wang, J. S. Liu, W. T. Li, C. Wang, Z. J. Zhang, J. Q. Liu, Z. Y. Qin, M. Fang, Y. Xu, Y. X. Leng, F. L. Wei, Z. H. Song, R. X. Li, Z. Z. Xu

28. Features of Induced X-Ray Radiation and Possible Tandem FEL Realization on Channeling Particles
V. I. Vysotskii, M. V. Vysotskyy

29. Features of Resonant Absorption and Short-Wavelength Laser Amplification in Realistic Media
V. I. Vysotskii, M. V. Vysotskyy

Part IV. Alternative X-Rays and Applications

30. Observation and Investigation of Intensive Directional Quasi-coherent X-Ray Generated at Interaction of Cavitating Liquid Jet with a Target
V. I. Vysotskii, A. A. Kornilova

31. Laser-Plasma X-Ray Source Based on Cryogenic Targets
S. Amano

32. Photoionization of Atomic Neon Induced Using Nanosecond Pulses of Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV)
I. Saber, A. Bartnik, P. Wachulak, W. Skrzeczanowski, R. Jarocki, H. Fiedorowicz

33. Effects of Equation of State on Fluid Simulations for Laser-Produced Plasmas
C. Ikeda, A. Sunahara, S. Namba

Part V. X-Ray Imaging

34. Soft X-Ray Laser Ablation Mass Spectrometry for Chemical Composition Imaging in Three Dimensions (3D) at the Nanoscale
C. S. Menoni, I. Kuznetsov, T. Green, W. Chao, E. R. Bernstein, D. C. Crick, J. J. Rocca

35. Coherent Diffraction Imaging with Tabletop XUV Sources
M. Zürch, A. Guggenmos, R. Jung, J. Rothhardt, C. Späth, J. Tümmler, S. Demmler, S. Hädrich, J. Limpert, A. Tünnermann, U. Kleineberg, H. Stiel, C. Spielmann

36. X-Ray Reflection Imaging of Inclined and Obliquely Illuminated Objects
I. A. Artyukov, A. S. Busarov, N. L. Popov, A. V. Vinogradov

37. Nanoscale Imaging Using a Compact Laser Plasma Source of Soft X-Rays and Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV)
P. Wachulak, A. Torrisi, M. Ayele, J. Czwartos, A. Bartnik, R. Jarocki, J. Kostecki, M. Szczurek, Ł. Węgrzyński, H. Fiedorowicz

38. ERL-Based Laser-Compton Scattering X-Ray Source for X-Ray Imaging
A. Kosuge, T. Akagi, Y. Honda, S. Araki, J. Urakawa, N. Terunuma, R. Nagai, T. Shizuma, M. Mori, R. Hajima

39. 2D and 3D Nanoscale Imaging Using High Repetition Rate Laboratory-Based Soft X-Ray Sources
H. Stiel, A. Blechschmidt, A. Dehlinger, R. Jung, E. Malm, B. Pfau, C. Pratsch, C. Seim, J. Tümmler, M. Zürch

40. The Observation of Transient Thin Film Structures During the Femto-Second Laser Ablation Process by Using the Soft X-Ray Laser Probe
N. Hasegawa, M. Nishikino, M. Ishino, N. Ohnishi, A. M. Ito, Y. Minami, M. Baba, A. Ya. Faenov, N. Inogamov, T. Kawachi, K. Kondo, T. Suemoto

41. Spectrally Resolved Spatial Interference for Single-Shot Temporal Metrology
of Ultrashort Soft-X-Ray Pulses
Hugo Dacasa, Benoît Mahieu, Julien Gautier, S. Sebban, Philippe Zeitoun

Part VI. X-Ray Optics and Damage

42. Multilayer Mirrors for Focusing Objective in 40-nm Wavelength Region
M. Toyoda, Y. Tamaru, S. Mori, K. Sawada, Y. Fu, E. J. Takahashi, A. Suda, F. Kannari, K. Midorikawa, M. Yanagihara

43. Manufacture of High Precision, Multilayer Based Polarimeter Designed for Wide Energy Range from EUV to Soft X-Ray
H. Takenaka, N. Kuwabara, N. Kamachi, S.-Y. Liu, K. Endo, T. Ohchi, S. Ichimaru, H. Kimura, J. Laksman, F. Hennies, W. Grizolli, R. Sankari

44. Proposal of Hypereutectic Al–Si-Based Multilayer Mirrors for Wavelength Between 20nm and 25nm
M. Hatayama, S. Ichimaru, T. Ohchi, S. Oku

45. Irradiation Damage Test of Mo/Si, Ru/Si and Nb/Si Multilayers Using the Soft X-Ray Laser Built at QST
S. Ichimaru, M. Ishino, M. Nishikino, M. Hatayama, N. Hasegawa, T. Kawachi, T. Maruyama, K. Inokuma, M. Zenba, S. Oku

46. Mo/Si Multilayer-Coated Photodiode Detector for Monitoring Soft X-Ray Laser Intensity
T. Imazono

47. Analysis of Reflection Signal from EUV Multilayer Mirror for Irradiation-Induced Damage Study
M. Ishino, S. Ichimaru, M. Hatayama, N. Hasegawa, S. Oku, M. Nishikino

48. Investigation of Surface Excitation Effect for Ablation of 4H-SiC Substrate Using Double-Pulse Beam
K. Matsunaga, T. Hayashi, S. Kurokawa, H. Yokoo, N. Hasegawa, M. Nishikino, T. Kumada, T. Otobe, Y. Matsukawa, Y. Takaya

49. Ablation of LiF and CsI by EUV Nanosecond Laser Pulse
O. Frolov, K. Kolacek, J. Schmidt, J. Straus, A. Choukourov, P. Pira

50. Laser-Induced Damage on Silica Glasses by Irradiation of Soft X-Ray Laser Pulse
K. Mikami, M. Ishino, T.- H. Dinh, Y. Yamamoto, N. Hasegawa, M. Nishikino, T. Kawachi, S. Motokoshi, T. Jitsuno

Part VII. EUV Lithography

51. Performance of over 100W HVM LPP-EUV Light Source
S. Okazaki, H. Nakarai, T. Abe, K. M. Nowak, Y. Kawasuji, H. Tanaka, Y. Watanabe, T. Hori, T. Kodama, Y. Shiraishi, T. Yanagida, G. Soumagrne, T. Yamada, T. Yamazaki, T. Saitou, H. Mizoguchi

52. EUV Free-Electron Laser Requirements for Semiconductor Manufacturing
Erik R. Hosler, Obert R. Wood

53. Coherent Lithography with Tabletop Soft X-Ray Lasers: Latest Achievements and Prospects
M. C. Marconi, W. Li, C. Kyaw, W. Rockward, C. S. Menoni, J. J. Rocca

54. A 10 Hz Short-Pulse CO2 Laser System for Extreme Ultraviolet Source
R. Amano, T. -H. Dinh, A. Sasanuma, G. Arai, Y. Fujii, A. Takahashi, D. Nakamura, T. Okada, T. Miura, T. Higashiguchi

55. Modeling of Ablation of the Target Material for the Plasma for Coherent and Incoherent EUV Sources
A. Sasaki, A. Sunahara, K. Nishihara, T. Nishikawa

56. Surface Layer Modification of Metal Nanoparticle Supported Polymer by Irradiation of Laser-Driven Extreme Ultraviolet Light
N. Tanaka, R. Deguchi, N. Wada, K. Yasuda, A. Yogo, H. Nishimura

57. Micrometer-Scale Photo-Direct Machining of Polydimethylsiloxane Using Laser Plasma EUV Radiations
H. Urai, T. Makimura, M. Ogawa

Part VIII. Instrumentation for Advanced X-Ray Applications

58. Broadband High-Resolution Imaging Spectrometers for the Soft X-Ray Range
A. O. Kolesnikov, A. A. Kuzin, D. V. Negrov, E. N. Ragozin, P. V. Sasorov, A. N. Shatokhin, E. A. Vishnyakov

59. Development of Soft X-Ray Microscope in Water Window Using Laser-Produced Plasma Light Source
T. Ejima, Y. Kondo, Y. Ono, T. -H. Dinh, T. Higashiguchi, T. Hatano

60. Development of Time-Resolved Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering System Using Soft X-Ray Laser
T. Kumada, N. Hasegawa, M. Nishikino, T. Otobe, R. Motokawa, T. Suemoto

61. Development of a High Repetition Rate and High Pulse Energy Nd:YAG MOPA Laser System
K. Mikami, N. Hasegawa, H. Okada, S. Kondo, M. Nishikino, T. Kawachi

62. Evaluation of a Flat-Field Grazing Incidence Spectrometer for Highly Charged Ion Plasma Emission in 1–10nm
Y. Kondo, T.-H. Dinh, T. Tamura, S. Ohta, K. Kitano, T. Ejima, T. Hatano, T. Higashiguchi

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