Soft x-ray (0.2<E<2.0 keV) imager for z-pinch plasma radiation sources

Journal Article · Fri Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2004 · Review of Scientific Instruments

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1787903· OSTI ID:20641221

Failor, B H; Qi, N; Levine, J S; Sze, H; Gullickson, E M ^[1]

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1. Titan Corporation, Pulse Sciences Division, 2700 Merced Street, San Leandro, California 94577 (United States)

Z-pinches can produce intense fluxes of argon K-shell (3 keV) radiation, but typically only a fraction of the load mass near the axis of the pinch radiates in this spectral range. The majority of the mass does not get hot or dense enough to radiate efficiently in the K-shell. We have designed, built, and tested an instrument to image pinch emission, specifically the radial emission profile, at energies below the K-shell in order to track the location of the cooler mass. A gold mirror provides a high-energy cut-off at 2 keV while a transmission grating disperses the incoming radiation and provides a low-energy cutoff at 0.1 keV. A vertical slit images the pinch radiation in the radial direction and the emission profile is recorded with either an extreme ultraviolet-sensitive charge-coupled device camera (time-integrated) or a linear photodiode array ({approx}1 ns time resolution). We present results for the mirror, grating, and system characterization obtained at the Advanced Light Source synchrotron located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley, CA)

• OSTI ID: 20641221
• 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: 10.1063/1.1787903; (c) 2004 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0034-6748
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
ADVANCED LIGHT SOURCE
ARGON
CHARGE-COUPLED DEVICES
DIFFRACTION GRATINGS
EMISSION
EXTREME ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION
GOLD
HEAT EXCHANGERS
IMAGES
K SHELL
KEV RANGE 01-10
PARTICLE TRACKS
PHOTODIODES
PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS
SYNCHROTRONS
TIME RESOLUTION
X-RAY RADIOGRAPHY
X-RAY SOURCES