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Extreme ultraviolet radiation, also called gentle X-rays or XUV, deals very certain optical houses. The X-UV refractive index of subject is such that standard mirrored image can't ensue on polished surfaces while beam transmission via one micrometer of just about all fabrics reduces to 0. hence, it has lengthy been a tough job to visualize and to enforce units designed for advanced optics experiments during this wavelength variety. due to new resources of coherent radiation - XUV-lasers and excessive Order Harmonics - using XUV radiation, for interferometry, holography, diffractive optics, non-linear radiation-matter interplay, time-resolved research of quick and ultrafast phenomena and lots of different purposes, together with scientific sciences, is ubiquitous.
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A. M. Rentzepis [1]. The authors examined the possibility of creating population inversions in the XUV energy range by photo-ionizing neutral atoms in such a way that the created ions present an inner shell vacancy. A large number of ions, simultaneously prepared in a time interval shorter than the vacancy lifetime, would offer the population inversion necessary to generate a laser action. 154 nm, respectively. ” Seeing the very short vacancy lifetimes and the energy required from the pump photons, the characteristics of the primary X-ray source seemed quite unrealistic, all the more since optical means for concentrating pumping radiation on the X-ray amplifier did not exist at all.
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