In this review we concentrate our attention on X‐ray laser research and development
covering the so called soft X‐ray region (down to∼ 10 nm) and the “water window” region …

Time-resolved tunable laser absorption spectroscopy is used to characterize the physical
properties of ultrafast laser-produced plasmas. The plasmas were produced from an Inconel …

Low-frequency properties of a plasma are examined within the average-atom
approximation, which presumes that scattering of a conducting electron on each atom takes …

The evolution of dense aluminum and carbon plasmas produced by laser irradiation of 500-
μ m-diam semicylindrical targets was studied using soft x-ray laser interferometry. Plasmas …

We report the study of carbon plasma produced using 1064 nm laser in nitrogen ambient at
atmospheric pressure using 2-dimensional fast imaging of ablated plume, optical emission …

With the advent of new x-ray light-sources worldwide, the creation of dense, uniformly
heated plasma states arising from intense x-ray irradiation of solids has been made …

We demonstrate that interferometric probing with extreme ultraviolet (EUV) laser light
enables determination of the degree of ionization of the “warm dense matter” produced …

Grating beam splitters have been fabricated for soft X-ray Mach-Zehnder interferometer
using holographic interference lithography. The grating beam splitter consists of two …

The distorted-wave with exchange (DWE) method is employed to evaluate electron impact
ionization cross sections in dense electron–ion plasmas. Bound and continuum electron …

A method to estimate the index of refraction in warm and hot dense matter is proposed. This
method combines the Kubo-Greenwood approach, Maxwell equations, and existing codes …