X-Ray Lasers 2014

Dr. Jorge Rocca Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 USADr. Carmen Menoni Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 USADr. Mario Marconi Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 USA

• 1. Progress and Prospects of Coherent X-Ray Research Using High Power Lasers in Japan Atomic Energy Agency.- 2. Advances in High Average Power, 100 Hz Repetition Rate Table-top Soft X-Ray Lasers.- 3. Possibility of Recombination Gain Increase in CV Ions at 4.0nm via Coherence.- 4. Overview of development of laser driven secondary sources at PALS and ELI.- 5. Spectral properties of collisional XUV lasers for the amplification of femtosecond pulses.- 6. Transient collisionally excited x-ray Lasers pumped with one long and two short pulses.- 7. Seeded operation of a Ne-like Titanium soft x-ray laser.- 8. Output beam polarization of x-ray lasers with transient inversion.- 9. Improved sub-10nm Ni-like lasing by varying the slope of the traveling-wave velocity.- 10. Temporal response of seeded XUV lasers under different amplification regimes- inversion density threshold.- 11. Self-photopumped x-ray lasers from elements in the Ne-like and Ni-like ionization state.- 12. Pump-Probe Experiment for Temporal Profile Measurement of Plasma X-ray laser.- 13. Capillary discharge X-ray Lasers: the Quest for sub-10nm Lasers.