X-Ray Lasers 2018 [electronic resource] : Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on X-Ray Lasers / edited by Michaela Kozlová, Jaroslav Nejdl.

Part 1: Plasma-based X-ray lasers -- Chapter 1 - Shorter wavelength repetitively fired x-ray lasers -- Chapter 2 - 3D Chemical Mapping of Thin Films by means of X-Ray Laser Microanalysis -- Chapter 3 - The ablation of solid targets using a capillary discharge laser -- Chapter 4 - Hydrodynamic modelling of plasma-based soft X-ray amplifiers -- Chapter 5 - The use of inhomogeneous forming lines in the laser power supply system on a high-current Z-discharge plasma -- Chapter 6 - Enhanced fluorescence from X-ray line coincidence pumping -- Chapter 7 - Generation of Short Wavelength Radiation and Energetic Particles by Using PW-Class Lasers -- Chapter 8 - Shaping of X-ray Pulses via Dynamical Control of their Interaction with a Resonant Medium -- Chapter 9 - Seeded soft x-ray lasers: towards OAM beam amplification and quasi pi-pulse regime -- Chapter 10 - EUV Laser Irradiation System with Intensity Monitor -- Chapter 11 - Li-like Aluminum Plasma Soft X-ray Laser by means of Recombination Scheme -- Chapter 12 - Experimental study of the gain dependence on driving laser pulse leading edge duration -- Part 2: High-order harmonic generation -- Chapter 13 - High-Charge XUV Vortex Beam : Generation and Hartmann Wavefront Sensor Characterization -- Chapter 14 - Ultrafast Inner Shell Electron Excitation with high Energy Recollision Electron driven by Mid-Infrared laser -- Chapter 15 - User-oriented high harmonic source at ELI Beamlines -- Chapter 16 - Enhancement of harmonics generated in modulated indium laser plasmas: experiment and theory -- Chapter 17 - Imaging plate absolute calibration in the XUV wavelength range -- Part 3: X-rays from relativistic electron beams -- Chapter 18 - Betatron X/γ-ray Radiation from Wakefield-Accelerated Electrons Wiggling in Laser Fields -- Chapter 19 - LWFA-driven betatron source for Plasma Physics Platform at ELI Beamlines -- Chapter 20 - Imaging Objects with Coded Apertures, Utilising a Laser Wakefield X-Ray Source -- Chapter 21 - Progresses of a hard X-ray Split and Delay Line unit for the MID station at the European XFEL -- Chapter 22 - Modeling diamond irradiated with a European XFEL pulse -- Part 4:X-ray optics, Imaging and metrology -- Chapter 23 - Time-resolved near-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy in the water window and beyond using laboratory based laser plasma sources -- Chapter 24 - Ptychography and Single Shot Nanoscale Imaging with Plasma-based Laser Sources -- Chapter 25 - Pico-Femto-Attosecond metrology for advanced and XUV photon sources -- Chapter 26 - High Spectral and Spatial Resolution Soft X-Ray/XUV VLS Spectrographs -- Chapter 27 - Spectral and polarization properties of VUV-mirrors for experiments at a HHG beamline -- Chapter 28 - On inverse problem for propagation of waves from inclined surfaces -- Chapter 29 - Flux and energy density of a collapsing electromagnetic pulse in the free space. .

These proceedings gather a selection of invited and contributed papers presented during the 16th International Conference on X-Ray Lasers (ICXRL 2018), held in Prague, Czech Republic, from 7 to 12 October 2018. The conference is part of an ongoing series dedicated to recent developments in the science and technology of X-ray lasers and other coherent X-ray sources, with an additional focus on supporting technologies, instrumentation and applications. The book highlights advances in a wide range of fields including laser and discharge-pumped plasma X-ray lasers, the injection and seeding of X-ray amplifiers, high-order harmonic generation and ultrafast phenomena, X-ray free electron lasers, novel schemes for (in)coherent XUV, X-ray and γ-ray generation, XUV and X-ray imaging, optics and metrology, X-rays and γ-rays for fundamental science, the practical implementation of X-ray lasers, XFELs and super-intense lasers, and the applications and industrial uses of X-ray lasers.