Explosive-mode short wavelength recombination Balmer-x laser. UV Thomson scattering from X-ray laser plasmas. Hydrogen-like recombination X-ray laser experiments using a 20 picosecond laser pulse at the NOVA facility. Conditions for gain in lithium-like aluminium. Photo-electron and photoionization pumping of XUV lasers by laser produced plasmas. X-ray laser direclty exciting by oscillating electrons. Calculations of photoionization, photoexcitation, and gain production in a neon gas cell irradiated by a sodium Z-pinch on Saturn. X-ray laser research in progress at Palaiseau. Overview of the program on soft X-ray lasers and their applications at Princeton. A flat field spectrograph for time resolved X-UV spectroscopy. CADIX: A time resolved X-ray laser beam diagnostic tool using an insertable multilayer mirror. The growth of sidebands in saturated X-ray lasers. Soft X-ray emission characteristics from line-shaped plasmas for X-ray lasers. The generation of line focii using random phase plates. High power short pulse generation on VULCAN using chirped pulse amplication. Comparative study of linear focal spots for X-ray laser experiments with both a crossed-slits camera and a space resolving crystal spectrograph. Recombination X-ray laser experiments using exploding ribbon aluminum targets. Spectroscopic diagnostics of ionization balance and electron density in 20 picosecond laser-produced aluminum and magnesium plasmas. Study of beam directivity with a grazing incidence spectrography specially designed for X-ray laser. Diagnostic instrumentation at the Nova two-beam facility. High power picosecond KrF laser system for water window X-ray laser. Soft X-ray amplification for Li-like and Be-like Si ions by irradiation of pulse-train laser. Experiments on X-ray laser photo-pumping. Soft X-ray gain in Na-like copper and nickel ions. Laser-assisted effects in X-ray laser recombination pumping schemes. Kinetics experiments on neon-like X-ray lasers. A calculation of gain in Ne-like Ag soft X-ray lasers. Demonstration of a resonantly photo-pumped X-ray laser. Problems in the theory of recombination lasers. Study of recombination X-ray lasers and related plasma physics at Shanghai. Analysis of the X-ray gain in hydrogen-like Na. Modelling study of recombination lasers. A compact crystal spectrometer for space resolving long, thin plasmas. Atomic parameters for Ne-like Ag collisional excitation X-ray laser simulations. Nonlinear optics with focused X-ray lasers. Photo-heating and photo-ionization of potential photo-pumped lasant plasmas on the 6-TW Double-EAGLE generator. XUV spectroscopic studies of silicon and copper plasmas. Some atomic data for recombination scheme X-ray lasers. 'Thermodynamic' method for electron density determination by dielectronic satellites to high members of He-like Rydberg seria lines. Density effects on atomc structure of N-electron ions. Experimental studies of the MnF photoresonant excitation soft-XRL scheme. Collisional excitation X-ray lasers. Short wavelength nickel-like X-ray laser development. Collisionally excited X-ray laser schemes: Progress at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. KrF pumped Raman lasers as X-ray laser drivers. Generation of high density aluminum plasma by a picosecond KrF laser pulse and the effect of prepulse ASE. Development of small scale soft X-ray lasers. The MIT short-wavelength laser project: A status report. Compact soft X-ray laser. Lasers pumped by heavy ion beams. X-ray microscopy experiments. X-ray laser holography of biological microstructures. Calculation of electron excitation rates for modelling of X-ray lasers. Soft X-ray laser gain prediction of high density for the nitrogen isoelectronic sequence. Spectral line broadening in X-ray laser research. Monte-Carlo simulation of optical trapping. Advanced design and modelling concepts for recombination X-ray lasers. Towards shorter wavelength X-ray lasers using a high power, short pulse pump laser. Space resolved observation of population inversion, electron temperature, and opacity of a recombining carbon plasma. Simulations of inner-shell photoionization-pumped X-ray lasing in boron. Nickel-like soft X-ray lasers at 44.8A and 43.1A. Recent studies of collisionally excited X-ray lasers at NRL. X-ray gain measurements in a nonuniformities on line focus plasma conditions. X-ray amplification in Ne-like silver: Gain determination and time-resolved beam divergence measurement. The carbon plasma expansion into gas. Coherent X-ray lasers for applications. Temperature diagnostic of germanium laser-produced plasmas using absorption spectrosocpy of 2p-3d transition arrays. The expansion history of aluminium targets relevant to X-ray laser schemes. Author index.
