X-Ray Lasers 2016: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on X-Ray Lasers

Part 1: Plasma Based X-Ray Lasers and Applications (10 papers).-

Chapter 1. Overview of Laser-driven Coherent Short-wavelength Sources at PALS and ELI Beamlines (Invited).-

Chapter 2. High Average Power Table-Top Soft X-Ray Lasers Using Diode-Pumped Laser Drivers (Invited).-

Chapter 3. Progress and Prospects of X-ray Laser Research at QST.-

Chapter 4. DAGON: a 3D Maxwell-Bloch Code.-

Chapter 5. Plasma-Source High-Resolution XUV Spectroscopy as Complementary to Beamlines Limitations (Invited).-

Chapter 6. The creation of radiation dominated plasmas using laboratory X-ray lasers (Invited).-

Chapter 7. Plasma Dynamics in Capillary Discharges (Invited).-

Chapter 8. MHD Simulation of Various Cross-Section Capillary Discharges.-

Chapter 9. Towards Generation of Sub-fs Pulses Using Lasing to Ground States of H-like LiIII at 13.5nm and He-like CV at 4nm.-

Chapter 10. Numerical Calculation of Gain Coefficient for Recombination X-Ray Lasers in a Carbon Cluster plasma.-

Part 2: Higher Harmonics and FEL Based X-Ray Lasers (10 papers).-

Chapter 11. Investigations on Ultrafast Atomic and Molecular Dynamics with Harmonic Sources (Invited).-

Chapter 12. Characterization of partially coherent ultrashort XUV pulses (Invited).-

Chapter 13. High-Order Harmonic Generation by Relativistic Plasma Singularities: the Driving Laser Requirements (Invited).-

Chapter 14. Wave-Mixing and Amplification in the Extreme Ultraviolet Region.-

Chapter 15. HHG beam wavefront characterization at 30 nm.-

Chapter 16. Using the X-FEL to drive gain in K-shell and L-shell systems using photo-ionization and photo-excitation of inner-shell transitions (Invited).-

Chapter 17. Superfluorescence/Superradiance in Helium Following Free-Electron-Laser Excitation.-

Chapter 18. In Situ Characterization of XFEL Beam Intensity Distribution and Focusibility by High Resolution LiF Crystal X-Ray Detector.-

Chapter 19. Achieving Laser Wakefield Accelerated Electron Beams of Low Enough Energy Spread for an X-FEL.-

Chapter 20. Proposal for Experiment Systems Using Laser Driven Heavy Ions and XFELs to Understand Physical Phenomena Occurring near the Incident Ion Path.-

Part 3: Ultrafast X-Rays and Applications (11 papers).-

Chapter 21. Laser driven plasma based incoherent X-ray sources at PALS and ELI Beamlines (Invited).-

Chapter 22. Research on Laser Acceleration and Coherent X-ray Generation using J-KAREN-P laser (Invited).-

Chapter 23. X-rays driven by Single-Cycle, Petawatt Lasers: A Path to Exawatt Pulses.-

Chapter 24. Ultraintense X-Ray Radiation Photopumping of Exotic States of Matter by Relativistic Laser Plasma in the Radiation-Dominated Kinetic Regime (RDKR) (Invited).-

Chapter 25. Enhanced coherent Thomson scattering in the few-cycle regime.-

Chapter 26. Plasma channel undulator for narrow-bandwidth X-ray generation.-

Chapter 27. Three-dimensional Supersonic Sapphire Micronozzles for Laser-Plasma Wakefield Accelerators.-

Chapter 28. Generating ultrahigh brilliance quasi-monochromatic MeV -rays with high-quality LWFA electron beams.-

Chapter 29. Features of Induced X-Ray Radiation and Possible Tandem FEL Realization on Channeling Particles.-

Chapter 30. Features of Resonant Absorption and Short-Wavelength Laser Amplification in Realistic Media.-

Part 4: Alternative X-Rays and Applications (5 papers).-

Chapter 31. Observation and Investigation of Intensive Directional Quasi-coherent X-Ray Generated at Interaction of Cavitating Liquid Jet with a Target.-

Chapter 32. Laser Plasma X-ray Source Based on Cryogenic Targets.-

Chapter 33. Photoionization of Atomic Neon Induced Using Nanosecond Pulses of Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV).-

Chapter 34. Effects of Equation of State on fluid simulations for laser-produced plasmas.-

Part 5: X-Ray Imaging (9 papers).-

Chapter 35. Soft X-Ray Laser Ablation Mass Spectrometry for Chemical Composition Imaging in Three Dimensions (3D) at th