Observation and theory of X-ray mirages

The advent of X-ray lasers allowed the realization of compact coherent soft X-ray sources, thus opening the way to a wide range of applications. Here we report the observation of unexpected concentric rings in the far-field beam profile at the output of a two-stage plasma-based X-ray laser, which ca...

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Main Authors: Magnitskiy, Sergey, Nagorskiy, Nikolay, Faenov, Anatoly, Pikuz, Tatiana, Tanaka, Mamoko, Ishino, Masahiko, Nishikino, Masaharu, Fukuda, Yuji, Kando, Masaki, Kawachi, Tetsuya, Kato, Yoshiaki
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Nature Pub. Group 2013
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3709498/