Abstract
The recent availability and rapid progress of intense short-pulse laser systems has resulted in growth of interest in the development of high-repetition-rate soft-x-ray lasers driven by these intense laser pulses. One of the most popular soft-x-ray-laser approaches is based on tunnel ionization of atoms (molecules) in an intense laser field.1 This ionization mechanism is very selective (because of the exponential dependence of the ionization rate on laser intensity and ionization potential) and permits stripping of all atoms to a necessary, definite ionization stage.
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