| Preface |
| Conference organization |
| Sponsors |
| Opening address 1 / S Matsu-ura |
| Opening address 2 / K Mima |
| Overview / Section 1： |
| Overview of x-ray laser research in the UK (Invited paper) / C L S Lewis ; R Keenan ; A G MacPhee ; R M N O'Rourke ; G J Tallents ; G Eker ; J Y Lin ; S J Pestehe ; R Smith ; J S Wark ; E Wolfrum ; J Zhang ; G J Pert ; S P McCabe ; P A Simms ; R E Burge ; M T Browne|cP Charalambous ; D Neely ; J Collier ; C N Danson |
| New results in the development of table-top capillary discharge soft-x-ray lasers: demonstration of high average power and realization of the first application (Invited paper) / J J Rocca ; C H Moreno ; B R Benware ; C D Macchietto ; M C Marconi ; V N Shlyaptsev ; F G Tomasel ; K Kanizay ; J J Gonzalez ; M Frati |
| Extreme nonlinear optics: phase-matching of ultraviolet and soft-x-ray generation (Invited paper) / H C Kapteyn ; M M Murnane ; I P Christov |
| The XUV laser facility developed at LULI for scientific applications (Invited paper) / G Jamelot ; F Albert ; A Carillon ; P Fourcade ; S Hubert ; P Jaegle ; A Klisnick ; J C Lagron ; D Ros ; S Sebban ; L Vanbostal ; Ph Zeitoun ; B Rus ; D Joyeux ; D Phalippou ; M Boussoukaya ; A Zeitoun-Fakiris |
| X-ray lasing and saturation in Ni-like ions at low pump power / R Tommasini ; F Loewenthal ; J E Balmer |
| A prospect of ultra-high field physics using ultra-short ultra-high peak power lasers (Invited paper) / H Takuma |
| Progress of x-ray laser research in China (Invited paper) / S J Wang ; Z Z Xu |
| Progress in table-top transient collisional excitation x-ray lasers at LLNL (Invited paper) / J Dunn ; A L Osterheld ; Y Li ; J Nilsen ; R Shepherd ; L B Da Silva |
| Collisional x-ray lasers / Section 2： |
| Characterization of x-ray lasers at short wavelengths (Invited paper) |
| Experiments of the saturated Ni-like x-ray lasers driven by a double 75 ps laser pulse / A MacPhee ; J Lin ; M H Key |
| Saturation behaviour in Ni-like Dy / S McCabe |
| Transient gain in travelling wave pumped Ni-like x-ray lasers / A Demir ; P Simms |
| Gain saturation and travelling wave effects for collisional excitation x-ray lasers / P Zeitoun |
| High brightness Ni-like soft-x-ray lasers for various applications (Invited paper) / H Daido ; N Sakaya ; T Norimatsu ; T Jitsuno ; G-Y Yoon ; Y Kato ; S Wang ; Y Gu ; G Huang ; H Tang ; K Murai ; R Butzbach ; I Uschmann ; M Vollbrecht ; E Foerster ; G Zhang ; T Desai ; H Takenaka ; F Koike ; K Namikawa ; E Arakawa |
| Characterization of a saturated nickel-like Ag x-ray laser pumped by high intensity 100 ps laser pulses / A Kashihara ; Y Takigawa |
| Test of Al-coated Nd target for the Ni-like Nd soft-x-ray laser / M Takagi ; H Takabe ; T Imani ; S Sezaki ; S Hirose ; Z Lin ; D Ximing |
| Design of a double target for the prepulse technique |
| Nickel-like Nd x-ray laser at 7.9 nm with double slab target coupling configuration / X Deng ; G Y Yoon ; Y Takagi ; H Takennaka |
| Generation of intense Ni-like x-ray lasers at LULI: from 130 ps to 350 fs pumping pulses (Invited paper) / R O'Rourcke ; P Nickles ; K Janulewicz ; M Kalashnikov ; J Warwick ; J C Chanteloup ; E Salmon ; C Sauteret ; J P Zou |
| Obtention of high gains in the 3s-3p J = 0-1 transition of neon like iron by an improved control of the ionization balance / A McPhee ; M Maillard ; C L Lewis ; N O'Rourke |
| Ray tracing modelling of a test collisional excitation x-ray laser using a half-cavity |
| Progress in understanding the short-pulse-driven collisional x-ray lasers (Invited paper) |
| Characterization of transient gain x-ray lasers |
| Measuring the wavelengths of the Ni-like 4d [superscript 1]S[subscript 0 right arrow] 4p [superscript 1]P[subscript 1 right arrow] 4d [superscript 1]P[subscript 1] x-ray laser lines |
| Prospects for x-ray laser development at the PALS facility / K Rohlena ; J Skala ; K Jungwirth ; J Ullschmied ; K J Witte ; H Baumhacker |
| X-ray laser research activity in JAERI/Kansai / A Nagashima ; K Nagashima ; M Kado ; T Kawachi ; N Hasegawa ; M Tanaka ; T Yamauchi ; A Sagisaka ; T Hosokai ; Y Suzuki ; O Yamashita ; K Sukegawa |
| Experimental investigation of the efficiency of a neon-like soft-x-ray laser applying a double prepulse technique |
| Ne-like Cr x-ray lasers driven by picosecond laser pulses / Y Zhang |
| Calculations of TCE x-ray laser in nickel-like and neon-like ions / R Li ; T Ozaki ; H Kuroda |
| Design of a 1 TW/100 fs-laser-driven Ne-like S x-ray laser at 60.8 nm / P Lu ; H Nakano ; T Nishikawa ; N Uesugi |
| Discharge pumped x-ray lasers / Section 3： |
| First experimental results of a very high power density capillary discharge plasma |
| High resolution temporal and spatial mapping of the electron density in a capillary discharge pumped soft-x-ray laser amplifier using sub-ps optical interferometry / H A Bender III ; S E Grantham ; M C Richardson ; W T Silfvast |
| Ablative capillary discharges as table-top XUV sources / R Dussart ; W Rosenfeld ; N Richard ; D Hong ; C Cachoncinlle ; C Fleurier ; J M Pouvesle |
| Development of a fast high voltage pulsed generator dedicated to a fast capillary discharge XUV source / J-M Pouvesle |
| Development of a plasma waveguide using fast capillary discharges / S Kondo ; M Kando ; M Nakajima ; K Horioka ; K Nakajima |
| The effect of neutral species on a Z-pinch capillary discharge x-ray laser / R Nemirovsky ; A Ben-Kish ; M Shuker ; A Ron |
| Study of vapour columns for discharge pumped x-ray lasers / R A Nemirovsky |
| Initial and boundary conditions influence on z-pinch plasma for collisional excitation x-ray lasers / A Ben-kish ; J L Schwob |
| Simulations of soft-x-ray lasing for capillary discharge argon plasmas / S Karashima ; S Kojima ; Y Murakami ; T Koike ; H Kitazawa |
| Gain calculations in capillary discharge plasmas. Proposal for high temperature two-step discharge without plasma compression / E P Ivanova ; N A Zinoviev |
| Recombination x-ray lasers / Section 4： |
| Study on tabletop x-ray lasers pumped by a pulse-train laser (Invited paper) / T Hara ; N Yamaguchi ; C Fujikawa ; K Okasaka ; T Ohchi ; K Ando |
| Excited level populations of Li-like Al ions in a low temperature dense recombining plasma; role of atomic processes through doubly excited levels / Y Aoyagi |
| Characteristics of the output beam from an unstable-cavity in a tabletop x-ray laser pumped by a pulse-train YAG laser |
| Scaling study on lithium-like x-ray laser pumped by a pulse-train laser / A Ogata |
| Effect of wave envelope of pulse-train laser on production of x-ray laser gain in recombining lithium-like aluminum plasmas / H Oyama |
| Effects of surface oxide layers on gain in multipulse-pumped lithium-like aluminum soft-x-ray lasers |
| Investigation of the gain anomaly of lithium-like ion 3d-4f and 3d-5f lasers in a recombining silicon plasma / Z Zhang ; P Fan ; Z Xu |
| Nitrogen Balmer-[alpha] recombination laser using a 30 nm thin membrane target / T Tomie ; H Yashiro ; E Miura |
| Prospects for a 3.34 nm water-window x-ray laser in the exploding-type pumping scheme |
| Effective ionization and rapid recombination of a plasma in the 'Exploding-mode pumping scheme' |
| Progress in demonstration of 3-body recombination x-ray lasers below 40 A / L Bonnet ; S Jacquemot ; J-L Miquel ; P Renaudin |
| A modified quasi-steady state approximation for modelling of collisional and radiative processes in recombination x-ray laser / U Furukane ; T Oda |
| Novel x-ray laser schemes / Section 5： |
| Possibility of off-resonant superradiant effects (Invited paper) / P L Hagelstein |
| Coherent soft-x-ray radiation with femtosecond lasers (Invited paper) / B N Chichkov ; A Egbert ; S Meyer ; C Reinhardt ; D M Simanovskii ; B Wellegehausen |
| Time-resolved investigations of optically field-ionized plasmas for soft-x-ray laser applications |
| Very compact 1-2 Hz soft-x-ray lasers and their potential applications (Invited paper) / A Goltsov ; V Korobkin ; A Morozov ; Y Ping ; S Suckewer |
| Ionization of atoms by combinations of different polarization femtosecond laser pulses / M Kakehata ; R Ueda ; H Takada ; K Torizuka ; M Obara |
| Relaxation of electron energy distributions and population inversion in optical-field-ionized plasmas / M Yamagiwa ; T Matoba |
| X-ray laser gain distribution in OFI plasmas |
| Anomalous plasma heating by intense ultra-short laser pulse for optical field ionization x-ray lasers / S Kato ; J K Koga ; K Kato ; Y Ueshima ; T Utsumi ; Y Kishimoto ; Y Owadano |
| Relativistic plasma pumping of x-ray lasers (Invited paper) / E Fill ; D Eder ; K Eidmann ; J Meyer-ter-Vehn ; G Pretzler ; A Pukhov ; A Saemann |
| Femtosecond x-ray laser schemes using electron-impact inner-shell ionization and Coster-Kronig processes / C Toth ; D-E Kim ; C P J Barty |
| Investigations towards the realization of an inner-shell x-ray laser in Na / C Ziener |
| Inner-shell ionization x-ray laser and hollow atom x-ray laser / K Moribayashi ; A Sasaki ; T Tajima |
| X-ray pumping source for inner-shell ionization x-ray laser |
| Giga-particle simulation on short pulse x-ray generation with anultra-short pulse relativistic laser / T Arakawa |
| Investigation of a femtosecond-laser-driven soft-x-ray laser using a gas puff target / T Mocek ; H J Shin ; Y H Cha ; D G Lee ; K H Hong ; C H Nam ; H Fiedorowicz ; A Bartnik ; M Szczurek |
| Excitation of nuclear transitions by self-channelled laser field for possible gamma-lasing (Invited paper) / V V Korobkin ; M Yu Romanovsky |
| A new scheme for charge-transfer pumping of laser-produced plasma for effective lasing in the XUV-range / I F Shaikhislamov ; A G Ponomarenko ; Yu P Zakharov ; V M Antonov ; A V Melekhov ; V G Posukh |
| Ultrashort intense laser interaction with atoms, molecules and clusters / S X Hu |
| Modelling of x-ray lasers / Section 6： |
| Modelling of laser produced plasma and Z-pinch x-ray lasers (Invited paper) / V Shlyaptsev ; J J Gonzales ; P V Nickles ; M P Kalashnikov ; W Sandner |
| Ultrashort-pulse x-ray lasers: experimental and theoretical research at CEA (Invited paper) / J L Miquel ; S Hulin |
| X-ray lasers driven by ultra-short pulsed lasers (Invited paper) / S B Healy |
| Simulations of collisionally pumped Ni-like x-ray lasers |
| Gain evaluation for the Ni-like tantalum x-ray laser / I P Grant ; S J Rose |
| Modelling of electron collisional excited x-ray lasers using short pulse laser pumping |
| Theoretical research on Ni-like ions x-ray laser pumping by multi-pulses / T Zhang ; J Wu |
| Effects of oscillator strength transfer and radiative decay cancellation in Ne-like and Ni-like sequences. Application to x-ray laser modelling and plasma diagnostics |
| Proposal for an x-ray laser pumped by a powerful short-pulse-drive laser / A L Ivanov ; N A Zinov'ev ; L V Knight |
| Particle modelling of ionization and three-body recombination in an x-ray laser medium / K Nanbu ; S Yonemura |
| Hybrid particle-in-cell simulation, the absorption and ionization dynamics of an overdense plasma heated by subpicosecond pulse laser / A Zhidkov |
| Near LTE linear symmetric response matrix with a collisional radiative model for He-like Al ions / R More ; T Kato |
| Three-body recombination and excited-atom populations in a non-Maxwellian or anisotropic plasma / T Fujimoto ; T Imaida |
| X-ray spectrum of Be-like ions in recombining plasmas / I Murakami ; U I Safronova |
| Spectroscopic observation for electron impact excitations of highly charged Ne-like ions / N Nakamura ; D Kato ; S Ohtani |
| Accurate transition rates in x-ray laser calculations / D Benredjem ; M Cornille ; J Dubau ; A Sureau ; C Moller |
| Depression of recombination pumped x-ray OFI-lasers by random plasma microfields. Recombination pumping of non-hydrogen-like ions |
| Broadening and gain x-ray lasing transitions by random plasmas magnetic microfields |
| Numerical investigation of the absorption of multipulse pumping / M Tagviashvili ; G Tallents |
| A ray trace modelling for an inhomogeneous and heavily saturated laser amplifier / H Hanajima |
| Plasma fluctuations and amplified spontaneous emission / F A Starikov ; V K Ladagin |
| The numerical simulation of melting and evaporation due to ultrashort-pulse laser irradiation / T Kunugi ; S Fujii ; M Akamatsu |
| Calculation of K-absorption edge in laser-shocked aluminum / J Chihara ; S Kiyokawa |
| Diagnostics of x-ray lasers / Section 7： |
| High resolution x-ray spectroscopy of laser-produced plasmas / E Forster |
| Spatially resolved high resolution spectroscopy of 4f-3d emission lines of Ni- and Co-like ions from Yb, Hf, Ta and W x-ray laser plasmas |
| Spectroscopic studies of the Ne-like and F-like Ge resonance line spectra emitted from x-ray laser media / Y Bektore |
| KeV spectroscopic diagnostic for the performance of Ni-like x-ray lasers / A Djaoui ; G Cairns |
| 2D spatial gain profiles in multiple-pulse driven Ne-like Ge lasers / J C Moreno ; T W Barbee Jr |
| Calibration of x-ray instruments for x-ray laser energy measurement / Y Tohyama ; H Nishimura |
| Time-resolved imaging of intense laser pulse self-channelling / H Honda ; K Katsura ; E Takahashi ; K Kondo |
| Diagnostics of the effect of a low-level prepulse on a solid surface |
| Measurement of preformed plasma parameters inside a micro-capillary tube |
| Plasma plumes generated by laser ablation of capillaries / Z Andreic ; L Aschke ; H-J Kunze |
| Studies on gamma ray emission from the interaction between solid targets and femtosecond lasers / P Zhang ; J T He ; D B Chen ; Z H Li ; J G Bian ; L Wang ; Z L Li ; B H Feng ; X L Zhang ; D X Zhang ; X W Tang |
| Charge-exchange in colliding plasmas / S Insam |
| Alternative sources of high-brightness x-rays / Section 8： |
| The interaction of femtosecond, high-intensity laser pulses with clusters (Invited paper) / M H R Hutchinson ; T Ditmire ; E Springate ; J W G Tisch ; M B Mason ; J P Marangos ; R A Smith |
| Phase-matched high-order harmonic generation by guided intense femtosecond pulses (Invited paper) / K Midorikawa ; Y Tamaki ; J Itatani ; Y Nagata |
| High-order harmonic generation in ionized gas media with a 45 fs intense laser source / K Zhai ; Y Wang ; X Li ; Y Liu ; X Yang ; W Zhang |
| High-order harmonic generation from solid surface plasmas by a picosecond pulse laser / A Ishizawa ; K Inaba ; T Kanai |
| ASE prepulse effects in high harmonic generation / J S Bakos ; I B Foldes ; M A Kedves ; G Kocsis ; G Veres ; Z Bakonyi ; T Nagy ; S Szatmari |
| Prepulse effects on x-ray emission in keV and sub-keV ranges from Al plasma produced by femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser pulses |
| Enhancement of soft-x-ray emission from femtosecond laser-produced plasma with a rectangular groove target |
| X-ray emission from laser-plasmas produced using a gas puff target / M Suzuki ; V Kmetik ; M Szcurek ; T Nakayama |
| Toward single pass FEL with SPring-8 Linac (Invited paper) / H Yokomizo ; Linac Group |
| The VUV FEL project at DESY: plans for improving the photon beam characteristics by feedback and seeding / J Feldhaus ; J Krzywinski ; E L Saldin ; E A Schneidmiller ; M V Yurkov |
| Coherent x-ray generation by new SUBARU, synchrotron radiation facility / S Miyamoto ; N Ikeda ; S Amano ; T Mochizuki |
| Generation of tunable radiation by photon acceleration in relativistic ionization fronts / C Stenz ; F Blasco ; J Dias ; N Lopes ; L Oliveira e Silva ; T Mendonca ; A Dos Santos ; A Mysyrowicz ; A Antonetti |
| Short pulse x-ray generation via backward Thomson scattering on a relativistic electron beam / H Kotaki ; H Dewa ; F Sakai ; T Watanabe ; T Ueda ; H Nakanishi ; K Yoshii ; K Kinoshita ; M Uesaka |
| Coherence theory / Section 9： |
| Calculations of properties of x-ray laser beams. Comparisons with experiments on polarization (Invited paper) / H Guennou |
| Improvement of spatial coherence of an x-ray laser |
| Determination of the x-ray laser coherence length |
| Ray tracing modelling of double-pass x-ray lasers |
| Numerical simulations of x-ray laser coherence build-up using a Maxwell-Bloch description / O Larroche |
| X-ray optics / Section 10： |
| Sc-Si normal incidence mirrors for a VUV interval of 35-50 nm (Invited paper) / V E Levashov ; Yu A Uspenskii ; A V Vinogradov ; A I Fedorenko ; V V Kondratenko ; Yu P Pershin ; E N Zubarev ; S Mrowka ; F Schafers |
| High reflectance multilayer mirror for the water window region (Invited paper) / M Yamamoto ; K Sakano ; Y Hotta |
| Characteristics and thermal behaviour of Mo/Si multilayer soft-x-ray mirrors with interleaved barrier-layers / H Ito ; T Kawamura |
| Design of a VUV/soft-x-ray ellipsometry system that uses laser produced plasma x-rays / J-J Delaunay ; Y Watanabe |
| Soft x-ray multilayer beamsplitter for x-ray laser application / K Yi ; Z Fan |
| Brilliant resonant transition radiation x-rays focused by total reflection optics / T Awata ; K Yajima ; R Koizumi ; A Itoh ; N Imanishi |
| ELID (electrolytic in-process dressing) grinding technique for x-ray mirrors / H Ohmori ; S Moriyasu ; Y Yamagata ; A Makinouchi ; H Asama ; I Takahashi ; N Itoh ; T Nakagawa |
| Ultraprecision mirror surface-finishing of x-ray mirrors with ELID grinding / T Kasai ; T Karaki-Doy ; K Horio |
| Aspherical form control for x-ray mirror substrates with ELID (electrolytic in-process dressing) grinding / I Takahasi |
| Ultraprecision polishing technique for x-ray mirrors / M Ohmae ; M Konaka ; M Mori |
| Phase imaging with partially coherent x-rays / S S Han ; J Cheng ; H J Tang |
| Exploitation of x-ray in-line Gabor holography with a partially coherent source |
| X-ray laser drivers / Section 11： |
| Pre-pulse free short-pulse KrF laser for x-ray laser pumping |
| Design and performance of a 100 TW, sub-20 fs Ti:sapphire laser system / K Yamakawa ; S Matsuoka ; M Aoyama ; T Kase ; Y Akahane |
| Ultra-short pulse line focus travelling-wave implementation on the Vulcan laser / J L Collier ; R M Allott ; D A Pepler ; T B Winstone |
| New method of travelling wave generation and characterization for use on x-ray laser transient pumping experiments / J-C Chanteloup ; A Migus ; R O'Rourke |
| Applications of x-ray beams and high brightness x-ray sources / Section 12： |
| X-ray laser radiography of hydrodynamic perturbations due to laser imprint (Invited paper) / D Kalantar ; B A Remington |
| Absorption of the neon-like bromine x-ray laser at 19.47 nm in helium / E E Fill |
| Investigation of electric field induced surface phenomena by soft-x-ray laser interferometry |
| Interferograms obtained with an x-ray laser by means of a wavefront division interferometer / D Joyeaux ; J P Chauvineau |
| Experimental investigation of the x-ray laser focusability using a Bragg-Fresnel reflective lens / Ph Troussel ; G de Lacheze-Murel ; P Dhez ; G Cauchon ; A Mirone ; D Hambach ; B Niemann |
| X-ray microscopy using a soft-x-ray laser light source |
| Formation of a sub-[mu]m x-ray beam from a tabletop soft-x-ray laser |
| Near frequency doubling through four wave mixing in plasma / A Hibbert |
| KeV x-ray source toward 100 fs time-resolved x-ray applications (Invited paper) / A Rousse ; C Rischel ; P A Albouy ; J P Geindre ; P Audebert ; J C Gauthier ; J L Martin |
| Fundamental research of subpicosecond time resolved x-ray diffractometry using an electron linac / H Harano |
| Special purpose computer for x-ray scattering analysis of macromolecules in Solution / V Masuda ; M Oikawa ; T Ito ; H Ihara |
| Application of laser plasma soft x-rays to material analysis / H Azuma ; A Takeichi ; S Noda |
| Conceptional design of medical laser SR / M Kumada ; Z F-Qing |
| Author index |
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