Transient nuclear inversion by X-Ray Free Electron Laser in a tapered x-ray waveguid

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2104.09624v1
• Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2021 02:06:52 GMT
• Title: Transient nuclear inversion by X-Ray Free Electron Laser in a tapered x-ray waveguid
• Authors: Yu-Hsueh Chen, Po-Han Lin, Guan-Ying Wang, Adriana P\'alffy, and Wen-Te Liao
• Abstract summary: We show how tapered x-ray waveguides can focus and guide radiation from x-ray lasers. This feature can be used to significantly enhance spatial interactions of x-rays. Our results anticipate the important role of tapered x-ray waveguides in the emerging field of x-ray quantum optics with nuclear transitions.
• Score: 0.36001039618949515
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: By restricting the spatial energy transmission of an electromagnetic wave, dielectric waveguides transmit light over long distances at sustained intensity. Waveguides have been used in the microwave and optical range to maintain strong signal intensities in connection with lasers, but guiding of intense short-wavelength radiation such as x-rays has proven more cumbersome. Here we investigate theoretically how tapered x-ray waveguides can focus and guide radiation from x-ray free electron lasers. Elliptical waveguides using a cladding material with high atomic number such as platinum can maintain an x-ray intensity up to three orders of magnitude larger than in free space. This feature can be used to significantly enhance resonant interactions of x-rays, for instance driving nuclear transitions up to transient nuclear population inversion. This could be the first breakthrough in nuclear state population control. Our results anticipate the important role of tapered x-ray waveguides in the emerging field of x-ray quantum optics with nuclear transitions.

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