X-Ray Lasers 2016: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on X-Ray Lasers (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

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