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| Preface | |
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| Conference organisation | |
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| Sponsors | |
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| X-ray laser progress and applications experiments at LULI | |
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| Development and application of ultra-bright laser and harmonic XUV sources | |
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| An overview of soft x-ray laser research at SIOFM | |
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| Experiments towards X-ray lasers for applications | |
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| Possibility of short wavelength X-ray lasers and their applications | |
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| Wide spectral range soft X-ray lasing with Ni-like ions | |
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| Progress in the control and optimization of the 21.2 nm zinc laser | |
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| Investigation of gain in low-Z nickel-like ions: results on tin and silver | |
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| Efficiency improvements of the Ne-like collisional X-ray laser scheme | |
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| Characterisation of a saturated single frequency Ne-like Ge XUV laser on the J = 0 [actual symbol not reproducible] 1 transition at 19.6 nm | |
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| Theory of X-ray lasers at saturation intensity | |
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| A near diffraction limit soft X-ray laser obtained by travelling wave amplification experiment | |
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| The optical problem in the design for an amplifier of X-ray laser with high quality | |
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| Time-resolved investigation of neon-like J = 0 - 1 X-ray lasers | |
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| Laser-irradiated gas puff targets and X-ray lasing with neon-like argon and nickel-like xenon ions | |
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| Efficient X-ray lasers in neon-like utilizing transient gain | |
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| Density profile smoothing in a transient gain X-ray laser | |
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| Transient high gains at 196 [actual symbol not reproducible] produced by picosecond pulse heating of a preformed germanium plasma | |
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| Oxidation of lanthanides and its effect on X-ray lasers | |
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| Recent progress in lithium-like aluminum recombining plasma lasers in RIKEN | |
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| Impurity effects on gain of soft X-ray laser with aluminum recombination plasma | |
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| An analysis of gain-decreasing over a long plasma medium for recombination X-ray laser | |
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| Balmer-[alpha] soft X-ray amplification in a carbon plasma produced by short-pulse lasers | |
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| Study of C VI Balmer-[alpha] 18.2 nm line in a Z-pinch carbon plasma by computer simulation | |
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| Optimum laser driver for the soft X-ray amplification in a recombination magnesium plasma | |
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| High gain recombination XUV lasers and efficient XUV harmonics from ps laser pulse interactions with solid targets | |
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| Development of hydrodynamics and atomic kinetic codes for recombination X-ray lasers | |
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| Experimental investigation of recombining processes in 10 ps KrF laser produced plasmas | |
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| The optical-field and inner-shell ionization schemes for X-ray lasing | |
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| Target considerations for inner-shell photoionized X-ray lasing | |
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| Reduction of the required laser intensity for optical-field-ionized X-ray lasers | |
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| Lasing to ground state in Li III at 13.5 nm | |
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| Hydrodynamic perspective on OFI-plasma X-ray lasers | |
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| Electron energy relaxation and distribution functions of OFI-plasmas | |
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| Self-photopumped neon-like and nickel-like X-ray lasers | |
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| Simulations of inner-shell photoionization X-ray lasers | |
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| Investigations towards the realization of an innershell X-ray laser in Na | |
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| Advances in discharge-pumped soft X-ray lasers: from the observation of gain to achievement of the saturation limit and energy extraction | |
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| Capillary discharge soft X-ray amplifier for use in amplifying harmonic radiation | |
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| Amplified spontaneous emission of the J = 2 [actual symbol not reproducible] 1, 3p-3s transition of neon-like argon in a capillary discharge | |
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| Ablative capillary discharges as possible XUV laser sources | |
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| Magnetohydrodynamic simulation of capillary plasmas | |
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| Study on table-top X-ray lasers pumped by a YAG laser | |
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| Measurement of gain and double-pass amplification of Li-like A1 soft X-ray transitions pumped by a pulse-train YAG laser | |
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| Cavity experiment in a table-top X-ray laser pumped by a pulse-train YAG laser | |
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| Theoretical aspects of efficient downsized X-ray lasers | |
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| Demonstration of intense soft-X-ray lasing at 28.5 nm in neon-like chromium pumped by a compact Nd:glass laser | |
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| Ground state lasers: theory and experiments | |
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| On the feasibility of Ne-like XUV lasers pumped by a fs laser | |
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| Spectroscopic studies in the soft X-ray region using a femtosecond terawatt laser | |
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| Progress in understanding the prepulse and multiple pulse techniques | |
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| The effects of multi-pulse irradiation on X-ray laser media | |
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| Improving the efficiency of collisionally excited X-ray lasers using multiple 100 ps pulses | |
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| Ne- and Ni-like X-ray lasers using the prepulse technique | |
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| Effects of density structures and pulse temporal shaping | |
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| Theoretical investigation of the prepulse action on the anomalous Ne-like 3p J = 0/3s J = 1 amplification | |
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| International laser facilities | |
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| Sub-20-fs multiterawatt lasers and X-ray applications | |
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| YAG laser systems and a new irradiation method for compact X-ray laser systems | |
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| New approach to recombination X-ray lasera - exploding mode pumping | |
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| Self-channelling of a multiterawatt ultra-short laser pulse in argon gas jets - shadowgraphy imaging | |
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| Long plasma columns produced in gas by axicon focusing of a table-top laser | |
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| Reduction of small-scale intensity modulation in a line focus produced by a cylindrical-lens array | |
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| Charge exchange in ion-ion collisions | |
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| Effects related to the large-scale longitudinal nonuniformities of the active media of X-ray lasers | |
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| ASE in X-ray lasers with random optical inhomogenities | |
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| Ion microfield effects on laser gains in recombination and photopumping X-ray laser schemes | |
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| On the possibility to increase the efficiency of Ge X-ray laser collisional scheme by use of Mg Ly-[alpha] irradiation | |
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| Self-alignment and alignment relaxation in neon-like germanium plasma: Monte-Carlo simulation | |
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| Atomic data for the polarization of Ne-like germanium | |
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| Zeeman splitting in collisional lasers | |
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| Gain and intensity calculations using Stark line shapes in soft-X-ray lasers | |
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| ASE at gain saturation: two investigation approaches | |
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| Recombination X-ray lasers in a plasma waveguide | |
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| Laser effect modelling for plasma containing suprahot electron beams | |
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| Molybdenum/silicon multilayer mirrors for 4.47 nm X-rays | |
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| Search for optimum structural parameters of multilayer soft X-ray laser reflectors | |
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| Multilayer reflector for polarization analysis of XUV radiation | |
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| Spectroscopic characterization of plane multilayer diffraction gratings using a laser-plasma soft X-ray radiation source | |
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| Interferometer for single-shot soft X-ray laser linewidth measurements | |
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| A novel transmission grating spectrograph with pre-optics | |
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| Time-resolved X-ray diffraction from laser-heated crystals | |
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| Spectroscopic investigations of X-ray laser media | |
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| Spectroscopy studies of the resonance line emission in the Ge XXIII XUV laser | |
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| Spectroscopic analysis of Li-like Ti and Ca X-ray laser media | |
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| Observation of transitions from inner-shell 2p2p[superscript 6]3l states in neon-like ions | |
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| Prepulse dependence of soft X-ray spectra from plasmas created by femtosecond IR laser pulses on solids | |
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| Investigation of prepulse plasmas for collisional excitation X-ray lasers | |
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| Spectroscopy of Zn and Cu line plasmas generated on a slab target by irradiances 10[superscript 10]-10[superscript 11] W cm[superscript -2] | |
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| Effective heating of a plasma by producing on a very thin membrane | |
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| Stark shift observation and density measurement in a laser-produced plasma | |
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| High-resolution monochromatic X-ray imaging of extended plasma columns | |
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| Time resolved measurement of ionization balance for various Ni-like X-ray laser plasmas | |
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| Time evolution of X-ray emission nonuniformity in line-shaped laser plasmas | |
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| How can keV lasing from long channels be verified? | |
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| New approach for measurement of the X-ray laser transverse coherence | |
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| High resolution two-dimensional near field images of neon-like soft X-ray lasers | |
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| Wavelength measurement on the Ni-like soft X-ray lasing and its comparison to the atomic physics calculation | |
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| X-ray free electron lasers based on high brilliance linacs | |
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| Generation and applications of high-order harmonics: an alternative coherent short-pulse XUV source | |
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| Spatial and temporal coherence measurements of harmonics of a 1053 nm, 2.5 ps laser interacting with solid surfaces | |
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| Demonstration of laser-induced X-ray radiation in an expanding laser-produced plasma | |
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| Electron synchrotron radiation generated by ultra-strong laser fields | |
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| Attosecond X-ray pulse generation by relativistic frequency conversion | |
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| Extending harmonic to X-ray region with a half-cycle delayed pulse | |
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| High-order harmonic generation in a fully ionized plasma | |
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| Liquid target for debris-free laser-plasma soft X-ray generation | |
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| Laser based, intense, high rep.-rate X-ray source (1 keV-10 keV) from ns to sub-ps | |
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| The simulation of a high-brightness, hard X-ray source based on interaction of ultra-short laser pulses with a high-Z target | |
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| Mixed electron-nuclear transitions in multiply charged ions: potentialities for the X-[gamma] laser | |
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| On the Coulomb excitation of even-even nuclei in the tens of keV region for possible [gamma]-lasing using free-electron channelling of powerful laser beams | |
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| Application of soft X-ray lasers for probing high density plasmas | |
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| Application of soft X-ray lasers interferometry to study large-scale-length, high-density plasmas | |
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| Radiography measurements of direct drive imprint in tin A1 foils using a bright XUV laser | |
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| Review of X-ray nonlinear optics | |
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| Application of X-ray laser to photoelectron microspectroscopy | |
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| UV luminescence of CsI excited by an X-ray laser | |
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| Possible applications of X-ray lasers in biology: X-ray microscopy and X-ray lasers | |
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| Propagation of laser-produced short X-ray pulses through scattering media: application to scatter-reduced medical imaging | |
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| Author index | |