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Refractive losses along laser-produced plasmas used as gain media are caused by density gradients. The pump pulse is thus deflected from the high gain region and the short wavelength signal steers-away causing loss of collimation. Hollow cylinders used as targets make the plasma homogeneous and can mitigate refractive losses by means of waveguiding.
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The present work was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation under the grant number PP00P2-133564/1.
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Masoudnia, L., Bleiner, D. (2014). Plasma Homogenization for Overcoming Refractive Losses in X-Ray Lasers. In: Sebban, S., Gautier, J., Ros, D., Zeitoun, P. (eds) X-Ray Lasers 2012. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 147. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00696-3_27
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