XUV Lasers Inc. was founded to make compact extreme ultraviolet/soft X-ray lasers and related technology widely available for scientific and industrial applications. The company commercializes laser technology that includes ultrashort wavelength lasers developed at Colorado State University. Pioneering work conducted at Colorado State University demonstrated for the first time that obtaining laser amplification at soft X-ray wavelengths in plasma columns created by fast capillary discharges was indeed feasible. Subsequent work developed capillary discharge lasers into the highest average power tabletop coherent soft X-ray sources presently available. The technology has applications in tabletop experiments in nanoscale imaging, nanopatterning, single photon ionization mass spectroscopy, interferometry, dense plasma diagnostics, nanoscale ablation of materials, and other applications. The company's line of products includes the first commercially available soft X-ray lasers.
