Abstract

We demonstrate the feasibility of saturation-related third-order x-ray resonant nonlinear effects, in particular, absorption saturation and nonlinear refractive index in x-ray laser and laserlike Se XXV and Mo XXXIII plasmas as well as in other plasmas with lower degrees of ionization.

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