Abstract
Soft x-ray lasers utilize as gain medium high density plasmas of small lateral dimensions,1 in which refraction of the amplified x-ray radiation can result from electron density gradients. London2 tats studied the beam optics of exploding foil x-ray lasers, which are well described by a model with a one-dimensional density gradient, assuming parabolic density profiles.
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