Metal nanoplasmas as bright sources of hard x-ray pulses

P. P. Rajeev, P. Taneja, P. Ayyub +2

We demonstrate a 13-fold increase in hard x-ray bremsstrahlung (10 - 200 keV) emitted by a copper plasma created by 100 fs, 806 nm pulses at $10^{14}-10^{15}$ Wcm${}^{-2}$. This enha…