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Development of XUV lasers at the RAL Central Laser Facility

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Recent progress in the development of XUV lasers by research teams using high-power and ultrashort-pulse Nd: glass and KrF laser facilities at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory is reviewed. Injector-amplifier operation and prepulse enhanced output of the Ge XXIII collisional laser driven by a kilojoule glass laser, enhanced gain in CVI recombination with picosecond CPA drive pulses from a glass laser, and optical field ionization and XUV harmonic generation with a KrF CPA laser are described.

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  1. Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    M. H. Key, S. G. Preston, J. S. Wark & J. Zhang

  2. Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Central Laser Facility, Didcot, UK

    M. H. Key, W. J. Blyth, A. Djoui, D. Neely, P. A. Norreys, S. J. Rose & C. G. Smith

  3. Department of Physics, University of Essex, UK

    L. Dwivedi, M. Holden, G. J. Tallents & F. Walsh

  4. Department of Computational Physics, University of York, York, UK

    P. B. Holden, G. J. Pert, J. A. Ploues & S. A. Ramsden

  5. Department of Pure and Applied Physics, Queens University of Belfast, Belfast, UK

    C. L. S. Lewis & A. G. McPhee

  6. Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College University of London, UK

    A. E. Dangor & A. Modena

  7. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

    A. A. Offenberger

  8. Institute of Nuclear Physics and Chemistry, Chengdu, China

    Y. L. You

  9. Laboratoire Spectroscopique et Ionique, University of Paris Sud, Orsay, Paris

    P. Dhez, P. Jaegle & A. Sureau

  10. Department of Gas Lasers, Institute of Physics, Na Slovance, Prague, Czech Republic

    B. Russ

  11. Institute for Laser Engineering, Osaka University, Japan

    M. Nakai

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Key, M.H., Blyth, W.J., Dangor, A.E. et al. Development of XUV lasers at the RAL Central Laser Facility. Opt Quant Electron 28, 201–208 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00385852

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