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The problem of developing a laser with a transition frequency in the EUV or soft X-ray regime is challenging, due primarily to the difficulty in developing an inversion on a line with appreciable gain under experimentally accessible conditions, and in part to the large local power requirements involved. The development of EUV and soft X-ray lasers would lead to advances in spectroscopy due to the potential for high brightness and narrow line width of the lasing radiation. There may be practical applications for a soft X-ray laser in the area of semiconductor photolithography. Short wavelegth holography may prove to be useful, assuming in both cases that the output laser radiation is sufficiently powerful, coherent and economical, and that production of the laser radiation can be carried out in a practical manner.
Work performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract W-7405-Eng-48 and supported by the Fannie & John Hertz Foundation.
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Hagelstein, P.L. (1984). Resonantly-Pumped Soft X-Ray Lasers Using ICF Drivers. In: Hora, H., Miley, G.H. (eds) Laser Interaction and Related Plasma Phenomena. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7332-6_7
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