These proceedings comprise of invited and contributed papers presented at the 13th International Conference on X-Ray Lasers (ICXRL 2012) which was held 11-15 June 2012 in Paris, in the famous Quartier Latin, inside the historical Center of Cordeliers. This conference is part of a continuing series dedicated to recent developments and applications of x-ray lasers and other coherent x-ray sources with attention to supporting technologies and instrumentation.

New results in the generation of intense, coherent x-rays and progress towards practical devices and their applications are reported in these proceedings, including areas of research in plasma-based x-ray lasers, 4th generation accelerator-based sources and higher harmonic generation.

Recent achievements related to the increase of the repetition rate up to 100 Hz and shorter wavelength collisional plasma-based soft x-ray lasers down to about 7 nm are presented. Seeding the amplifying plasma with a femtosecond high-order harmonic of infrared laser was foreseen as the required breakthrough to break the picosecond frontier. Numerical simulations based on the Maxwell-Bloch model are presented in these proceedings, transposing the chirped pulse amplification technique to the x-ray domain in order to increase the time over which the femtosecond seed can be amplified.

These proceedings also include innovative applications of soft x-ray lasers based on techniques and diagnostics relevant to topical domains such as EUV lithography, inertial confinement fusion, or warm dense matter physics.

Autorentext

Stéphane Sebban
Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquée
ENSTA
Chemin de la hunière
F-91761 Palaiseau Cedex
France

Julien Gautier
Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquée
ENSTA
Chemin de la hunière
F-91761 Palaiseau Cedex
France

David Ross
LPGP, bat. 210
Université Paris-Sud
91405
Orsay
France

Philippe Zeitoun
Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquée
ENSTA
Chemin de la hunière
F-91761 Palaiseau Cedex
France

Inhalt

Coherent Pulses from Seeded Free-Electron Laser in the Extreme Ultraviolet.- Enhancement of Efficiency of XUV Generation in Atomic Gases Irradiated by Intense Laser Fields.- All-Optical Raman XFEL, Based on the Electron Emission in a Transverse High Intensity Optical Lattice.- Optical Transforms Related to Coherent Imaging of Inclined Objects.- Soft X-Ray Lasing Down to 6.85 nm in Ni-like Samarium.- Fourier Optical Study of Traveling-Wave Excitation at Short-Wavelength Plasma-Lasing.- Coherent Short-Wavelength Plasma Radiation for Lab-Scale Nano-Inspection tools.- Ion Temperature and Cross-Relaxation Effects on OFI Soft-X-Ray Laser.- Study of Particle Correlation Effects on Line Profiles of Ni-Like Collisional XUV Laser Amplification.- The LUNEX5 Project in France.- High Harmonic Generation Driven by Two Quasi-Collinear Pulses.- Real-Time Observation of Laser Heated Metals with High Brightness Monochromatic X-Ray Techniques at Present and Their Future Prospects.- Generation and Application of Coherent Radiation in the Water Window.- Time-Dependent Simulation of Carbon Illuminated by a High Intensity X-Ray Laser.- Regenerative Laser Cavity Tuning for Efficient Soft-X-Ray Laser Operation.- X-Ray Laser Developments at PHELIX.- Parabolic Equation and Exact Transparent Boundary Conditions in X-Ray Optics - Application to Waveguides and Whispering Gallery Optics.- Harmonic Generation and Soft-X-Ray Laser with LASERIX: Souce Development, Applications and Advanced Diagnosis.- Observation of the Laser-Induced Surface Dynamics Using the Single-Shot X-Ray Laser Probe.- Nano-Meter Size Modification of Metal Surfaces Induced by Soft X-Ray Laser Single Pulse.- Speckle Statistics, Coherence and Polarization of a Collisional Soft X-Ray Laser.- Upscaling of X-Ray Laser Repetition of Rate Using an OPCPA Architecture.- Source Development of Novel Coherent X-Rays and Their Applications in JAEA.- Characterization of Zn X-Ray Laser at PALS Centre, Its Application in Dense PlasmaProbing and Astrophysics.- Development of High Reflective Multilayer Mirrors at "Water Window" Wavelengths in IPOE.- Time Resolved Holography Scheme Using a Table Top Soft X-Ray Laser.- Plasma Homogenization for Overcoming Refractive Losses in X-Ray Laser.- Temporal Coherence and Spectral Linewidth of Neon-Like XUV Lasers Pumped in the Quasi-Steady State Regime.- Spectral Broadening of Ni-Like XUV Lines.- Visualization of Rapid Dynamic Interactions by Flash Soft X-Ray Microscopy.- Using the X-FEL to Understand X-Ray Thomson Scattering for Partially Ionized Plasmas.- Development of Soft X-Ray Microscopy Using Fresnel Zone Plate for Observation Laser-Induce Surface Dyanmics.- 0.27 GW Soft X-Ray Pulse Using a Plasma-Based Amplification Chain.- Harmonic Generation in Argon by Femtosecond Ti:Sapphire Laser.- Demonstration of a 100 Hz Repetition Rate Soft X-Ray Laser and Gain-Saturated sub-10nm Table-Top.- Optical Correction of X-Ray Laser Illumination for Short-Wavelength Microscopy.- Repetitive XUV Discharge-Pumped Lser at 46.9 nm.- Line-Focus Generation for X-Ray Laser Pumping.- Critical Components for XUV Probing of Laser Driven Shocks.- High Density Optical-Field-Ionization Soft X-Ray Lasers.- Spectral Linewidth Measurement of a Ne-Like Ar Capillary Discharge Soft X-Ray Laser.- Defect Tolerant Talbot Nanopatterning.- Imaging in Nanoscale Using Laser-Plasma Sources of Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV).- Experiments to Diagnose Plasma with a Soft X-Ray Laser Double-Frequency Grating Interferometry.- Heavy-Ion Spectroscopy with X-Ray Lasers at GSI.