Characteristics of solid Xe plasma soft x rays produced in experiments at iodine laser facility ISKRA-4

We report about first experiments on plasma soft x ray production from solid xenon irradiated with (lambda) equals 1.315 micrometers light of the iodine laser ISKRA-4 at a pulse duration of (Tau) 0.5 equals 0.5 ns. It has been found that at laser intensities of q approximately equals (0.5 divided by 2) (DOT) 1014 W (DOT) cm-2 the main part of xenon plasma x ray energy corresponds to the quanta of energy in the range of 0.4 divided by 1.5 keV and the conversion factor (eta) reaches 10%.© (1993) COPYRIGHT SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.