Transmission grating streaked spectrometer for the diagnosis of soft x-ray emission from ultrahigh intensity laser heated targets
- AWE Aldermaston, Reading, Berkshire, RG7 4PR (United Kingdom)
A free-standing gold transmission grating with a period of 5000 A has been coupled to a soft x-ray sensitive streak camera with a limiting temporal resolution of 10 ps. The streak camera is equipped with a caesium iodide transmission photocathode and observations have been made in the 10-100 A regime. For a small source (200 {mu}m diameter) the spectral resolution is predicted to be around 2.5 A. This has been confirmed by examination of the Lyman-{alpha} line in hydrogen-like laser heated boron. A recorded linewidth of 2.44 A is demonstrated. The instrument has been used to diagnose the soft x-ray emission from a plastic (CH) foil target heated by an ultra-intense (2x10{sup 20} W cm{sup -2}) laser pulse.
- OSTI ID:
- 20641205
- Journal Information:
- Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 75, Issue 10; Conference: 15. topical conference on high temperature plasma diagnostics, San Diego, CA (United States), 19-22 Apr 2004; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.1790053; (c) 2004 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0034-6748
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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