Implosion of sodium-bearing capillary-discharge plasmas for x-ray laser experiments
- 20 April 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 50 (16), 1053-1055
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.97967
Abstract
A NaF plasma from a capillary discharge has been imploded with a 1.2‐MA driving current to produce an intense source of sodium K‐shell x rays. A peak power of 25 GW in a 20‐ns pulse was measured for the sodium He‐α line which can be used as the pump radiation for a Na/Ne XUV laser scheme.Keywords
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