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Towards Megajoule X-ray Lasers via Relativistic 4-Photon Cascade in Plasma

Plasma Physics 2020-03-04 v1 Optics

Abstract

An extraordinarily efficient mechanism, operating at high laser intensities and powers, is identified for spectral transferring huge laser energies to shorter ultraviolet and x-ray wavelengths. With megajoule laser energies currently available at near-optical wavelengths, this transfer would enable megajoule x-ray lasers, a huge advance over the millijoules x-ray pulses produced now.

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@article{arxiv.1909.01453,
  title  = {Towards Megajoule X-ray Lasers via Relativistic 4-Photon Cascade in Plasma},
  author = {V. M. Malkin and N. J. Fisch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.01453},
  year   = {2020}
}

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6 pages, 1 figure