Was the Livermore X-Ray Laser Pumped by Recombination?

J. P. Apruzese; J. Davis; M. Blaha; P. C. Kepple; V. L. Jacobs

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.55.1877

Was the Livermore X-Ray Laser Pumped by Recombination?

J. P. Apruzese, J. Davis, M. Blaha^*, P. C. Kepple, and V. L. Jacobs

Plasma Radiation Branch, Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. 20375

^*Present address: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, Md. 20742.

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 55, 1877 – Published 28 October, 1985

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.55.1877

Abstract

We demonstrate that recombination pumping following rapid radiative cooling of an overstripped selenium plasma can quantitatively account for the observed gains of the $J = 2 to 1$ Se xxv transitions in the recent successful Livermore x-ray-laser experiments. The absence of gain in the $J = 0 to 1$ transition, hitherto unexplained, is fully consistent with this scenario.

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