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Coherent X-Ray Generation with Laser Driven Ions

Atomic Physics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

Small parts of the electronic wavepacket of a multiple charged ion may still tunnel through the high Coulomb barrier for a sufficiently intense laser field of 1015W/cm210^{15}W/cm^2 and higher. Solving numerically the corresponding Schr\"odinger equation we find that the periodic recollisions of such a wavepacket in the oscillating high power laser field will give rise to coherent X-ray radiation in the multiple keV regime, i.e. substantially higher than predicted or observed before.

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@article{arxiv.physics/0004037,
  title  = {Coherent X-Ray Generation with Laser Driven Ions},
  author = {Massimo Casu and Christoph Keitel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0004037},
  year   = {2007}
}

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10 pages, 3 figures; submitted to J.Phys.B