The Bern Advanced Glass Laser for Experiment (Beagle( X-ray Laser Facility

In the following sections, the various components constituting the facility will be described in some detail. An artist's impression of the layout of the BeAGLE facility is shown. This chapter is organized in such a way that we will follow the optical path of the driver beam from the oscillator down to the target chamber. The laser pulse delivery onto the target, as a line focus, triggers a hot and dense plasma column. The latter sustains the amplification of the spontaneous emission (ASE) which is the “X-ray laser”. Here we will put more emphasis on the architecture of the integrated system, which means a module wise description of the drive laser.