Reminiscing About the Early Years of the X-Ray Laser

To put the development of the X-ray laser in historic context, this paper presents some of the motivation and history of the development of the X-ray laser from the perspective of a scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where the first X-ray laser was demonstrated in the early 1980's using a nuclear device as the driver.

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