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Plasma wake field XUV radiation source

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OSTI ID:870997
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  1. Los Alamos, NM
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A XUV radiation source uses an interaction of electron beam pulses with a gas to create a plasma radiator. A flowing gas system (10) defines a circulation loop (12) with a device (14), such as a high pressure pump or the like, for circulating the gas. A nozzle or jet (16) produces a sonic atmospheric pressure flow and increases the density of the gas for interacting with an electron beam. An electron beam is formed by a conventional radio frequency (rf) accelerator (26) and electron pulses are conventionally formed by a beam buncher (28). The rf energy is thus converted to electron beam energy, the beam energy is used to create and then thermalize an atmospheric density flowing gas to a fully ionized plasma by interaction of beam pulses with the plasma wake field, and the energetic plasma then loses energy by line radiation at XUV wavelengths Collection and focusing optics (18) are used to collect XUV radiation emitted as line radiation when the high energy density plasma loses energy that was transferred from the electron beam pulses to the plasma.

Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-36
Assignee:
Regents of University of California Office of Technology Transfer (Alameda, CA)
Patent Number(s):
US 5637962
OSTI ID:
870997
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (2)

Radiative and kinetic mechanisms in bound-free excimer lasers journal September 1977
Sustainer enhancement of the VUV fluorescence in high-pressure xenon journal June 1976

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