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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 16, Issue 12, Pages 8324-8331Publisher
Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.008324
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We study the nonlinear refraction of X-rays in highly ionized condensed matter by using a classical model of a cold electron plasma in a lattice of still ions coupled with Maxwell equations. We discuss the existence and stability of nonlinear waves. As a real-world example, we consider beam self-defocusing in crystalline materials (B, C, Li, Na). We predict that nonlinear processes become comparable to the linear ones for focused beams with powers of the order of mc(3)/r(o) (approximate to 10 GW), the classical electron power. As a consequence, nonlinear phenomena are expected in currently exploited X-ray Free-Electron Lasers and in their future developments. (C) 2008 Optical Society of America.
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