| ecently, the demonstration of the first discharge-pumped soft x-ray laser in Ne-like Ar at 46.9 nm pumped in a capillary discharge plasma column opened a new route to the development of compact table-top ultrashort wavelength amplifiers. This Dissertation reports the study of two important issues for the fUrther development of capillary discharge excited soft x-ray lasers: the reduction of the deleterious effects of refraction in the laser medium, and the extension of the laser wavelength range by excitation of materials produced from solid targets. In the first part of this work, the application of an external axial magnetic field of... |
