A new streaked soft x-ray imager for the National Ignition Facility

Benstead, J.; Moore, A. S.; Ahmed, M. F.; Morton, J.; Guymer, T. M.; Pardini, T.; Soufli, R.; Hibbard, R. L.; Bailey, C. G.; Bell, P. M.; Hau-Riege, S.; Bedzyk, M.; Shoup, III, M. J.; Reagan, S.; Agliata, T.; Jungquist, R.; Schmidt, D. W.; Kot, L. B.; Garbett, W. J.; Rubbery, M. S.; Skidmore, J. W.; Gullikson, E.; Salmassi, F.

doi:10.1063/1.4951689

Title: A new streaked soft x-ray imager for the National Ignition Facility

Abstract

A new streaked soft x-ray imager has been designed for use on high energy-density (HED) physics experiments at the National Ignition Facility based at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. This streaked imager uses a slit aperture, single shallow angle reflection from a nickel mirror, and soft x-ray filtering to, when coupled to one of the NIF's x-ray streak cameras, record a 4ï¿½ magnification, one-dimensional image of an x-ray source with a spatial resolution of less than 90 μm. The energy band pass produced depends upon the filter material used; for the first qualification shots, vanadium and silver-on-titanium filters were used to gate on photon energy ranges of approximately 300-510 eV and 200-400 eV, respectively. A two-channel version of the snout is available for x-ray sources up to 1 mm and a single-channel is available for larger sources up to 3 mm. Both the one and two-channel variants have been qualified on quartz wire and HED physics target shots.

Authors:

Benstead, J. ^[1]; Moore, A. S. ^[2]; Ahmed, M. F. ^[2]; Morton, J. ^[1]; Guymer, T. M. ^[1]; Pardini, T. ^[2]; Soufli, R. ^[2]; Hibbard, R. L. ^[2]; Bailey, C. G. ^[2]; Bell, P. M. ^[2]; Hau-Riege, S. ^[2]; Bedzyk, M. ^[3]; Shoup, III, M. J. ^[3]; Reagan, S. ^[3]; Agliata, T. ^[3]; Jungquist, R. ^[3]; Schmidt, D. W. ^[4]; Kot, L. B. ^[4]; Garbett, W. J. ^[1]; Rubbery, M. S. ^[1] more »

AWE, Aldermaston, Berkshire (United Kingdom)
Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Univ. of Rochester, Rochester, NY (United States)
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Publication Date:: Fri May 27 00:00:00 EDT 2016

Research Org.:: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE; Ministry of Defence (MoD) (United Kingdom)

OSTI Identifier:: 1328729

Alternate Identifier(s):: OSTI ID: 1420626; OSTI ID: 1440930

Report Number(s):: LLNL-JRNL-680520
Journal ID: ISSN 0034-6748

Grant/Contract Number:: AC52-07NA27344; AC02-05CH11231

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Review of Scientific Instruments

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 87; Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 0034-6748

Publisher:: American Institute of Physics (AIP)

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 42 ENGINEERING; 71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; mirrors; optical coatings; soft x-rays; nickel; x-ray imaging

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                    Benstead, J., Moore, A. S., Ahmed, M. F., Morton, J., Guymer, T. M., Pardini, T., Soufli, R., Hibbard, R. L., Bailey, C. G., Bell, P. M., Hau-Riege, S., Bedzyk, M., Shoup, III, M. J., Reagan, S., Agliata, T., Jungquist, R., Schmidt, D. W., Kot, L. B., Garbett, W. J., Rubbery, M. S., Skidmore, J. W., Gullikson, E., and Salmassi, F. A new streaked soft x-ray imager for the National Ignition Facility.  United States: N. p., 2016. 
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                    Benstead, J., Moore, A. S., Ahmed, M. F., Morton, J., Guymer, T. M., Pardini, T., Soufli, R., Hibbard, R. L., Bailey, C. G., Bell, P. M., Hau-Riege, S., Bedzyk, M., Shoup, III, M. J., Reagan, S., Agliata, T., Jungquist, R., Schmidt, D. W., Kot, L. B., Garbett, W. J., Rubbery, M. S., Skidmore, J. W., Gullikson, E., & Salmassi, F. A new streaked soft x-ray imager for the National Ignition Facility.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4951689

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                    Benstead, J., Moore, A. S., Ahmed, M. F., Morton, J., Guymer, T. M., Pardini, T., Soufli, R., Hibbard, R. L., Bailey, C. G., Bell, P. M., Hau-Riege, S., Bedzyk, M., Shoup, III, M. J., Reagan, S., Agliata, T., Jungquist, R., Schmidt, D. W., Kot, L. B., Garbett, W. J., Rubbery, M. S., Skidmore, J. W., Gullikson, E., and Salmassi, F. Fri .  
"A new streaked soft x-ray imager for the National Ignition Facility".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4951689.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1328729.

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@article{osti_1328729,

  title        = {A new streaked soft x-ray imager for the National Ignition Facility},

  author       = {Benstead, J. and Moore, A. S. and Ahmed, M. F. and Morton, J. and Guymer, T. M. and Pardini, T. and Soufli, R. and Hibbard, R. L. and Bailey, C. G. and Bell, P. M. and Hau-Riege, S. and Bedzyk, M. and Shoup, III, M. J. and Reagan, S. and Agliata, T. and Jungquist, R. and Schmidt, D. W. and Kot, L. B. and Garbett, W. J. and Rubbery, M. S. and Skidmore, J. W. and Gullikson, E. and Salmassi, F.},

  abstractNote = {A new streaked soft x-ray imager has been designed for use on high energy-density (HED) physics experiments at the National Ignition Facility based at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. This streaked imager uses a slit aperture, single shallow angle reflection from a nickel mirror, and soft x-ray filtering to, when coupled to one of the NIF's x-ray streak cameras, record a 4ï¿½ magnification, one-dimensional image of an x-ray source with a spatial resolution of less than 90 μm. The energy band pass produced depends upon the filter material used; for the first qualification shots, vanadium and silver-on-titanium filters were used to gate on photon energy ranges of approximately 300-510 eV and 200-400 eV, respectively. A two-channel version of the snout is available for x-ray sources up to 1 mm and a single-channel is available for larger sources up to 3 mm. Both the one and two-channel variants have been qualified on quartz wire and HED physics target shots.},

  doi          = {10.1063/1.4951689},

  journal      = {Review of Scientific Instruments},

  number       = 5,

  volume       = 87,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Fri May 27 00:00:00 EDT 2016},

  month        = {Fri May 27 00:00:00 EDT 2016}

}

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