Tabletop High-Repetition-Rate X-Ray Laser

摘要

Many breakthroughs have been made in the development of high-brightness, high-repetition-rate, tabletop X-ray lasers recently. Because of their short wavelength and femtoseond-scale pulse duration, such X-ray lasers are of great potential for frontier research and application in various scientific fields. This article summarizes the accomplishments we have made on the development of optical-field-ionization collisional-excitation X-ray lasers, through which the readers can learn the basics for the general setup configuration, design considerations, and output characteristics of X-ray lasers.