A dual-channel, curved-crystal spectrograph for petawatt laser, x-ray backlighter source studies.

Autor: Theobald W; Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, 250 East River Road, Rochester, New York 14623-1299, USA., Stoeckl C, Jaanimagi PA, Nilson PM, Storm M, Meyerhofer DD, Sangster TC, Hey D, MacKinnon AJ, Park HS, Patel PK, Shepherd R, Snavely RA, Key MH, King JA, Zhang B, Stephens RB, Akli KU, Highbarger K, Daskalova RL, Van Woerkom L, Freeman RR, Green JS, Gregori G, Lancaster K, Norreys PA
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: The Review of scientific instruments [Rev Sci Instrum] 2009 Aug; Vol. 80 (8), pp. 083501.
DOI: 10.1063/1.3193716
Abstrakt: A dual-channel, curved-crystal spectrograph was designed to measure time-integrated x-ray spectra in the approximately 1.5 to 2 keV range (6.2-8.2 A wavelength) from small-mass, thin-foil targets irradiated by the VULCAN petawatt laser focused up to 4x10(20) W/cm(2). The spectrograph consists of two cylindrically curved potassium-acid-phthalate crystals bent in the meridional plane to increase the spectral range by a factor of approximately 10 compared to a flat crystal. The device acquires single-shot x-ray spectra with good signal-to-background ratios in the hard x-ray background environment of petawatt laser-plasma interactions. The peak spectral energies of the aluminum He(alpha) and Ly(alpha) resonance lines were approximately 1.8 and approximately 1.0 mJ/eV sr (approximately 0.4 and 0.25 J/A sr), respectively, for 220 J, 10 ps laser irradiation.
Databáze: MEDLINE