Development of XUV lasers at the RAL central laser facility

Recent progress in the development of XUV lasers by research teams using high-power and ultrashort-pulse Nd : glass and KrF laser facilities at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory is reviewed. Injector-amplifier operation and prepulse enhanced output of the Ge XXIII collisional laser driven by a kilojoule glass laser, enhanced gain in CVI recombination with picosecond CPA drive pulses from a glass laser, and optical field ionization and XUV harmonic generation with a KrF CPA laser are described. © 1996 Chapman and Hall