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Title: Saturation of a Ce:Y3Al5O12 scintillator response to ultra-short pulses of extreme ultraviolet soft X-ray and X-ray laser radiation

Abstract

Investigations of radioluminescence saturation in monocrystalline cerium doped yttrium aluminum garnet (Ce:YAG) exposed to intense extreme ultraviolet (XUV), soft X-ray and X-ray radiation delivered from three free-electron lasers are described in this article. The measurements were performed with wavelengths of 98, 25.6, 13.5 and 0.15 nm. We have found that saturation of the photon yield occurs at an excitation level of 2.0 x 1020 eV/cm3 resulting in an emission of 1.5 x 1018 visible photons per cubic centimeter. This number is much smaller than the concentration of Ce3+ in the scintillator that was equal to 2 x 1020 cm–3. Because the internal radiance efficiency η does not depend strongly on the irradiating photon energy, i.e., η ≈0.035 ± 0.015 in the range 10 to 100 000 eV, the results presented here could be used to predict saturation effects in scintillator slabs placed in imaging systems of bright XUV, X-ray and particle beams. In conclusion, the saturation of the Ce3+ emission is explained by mutual quenching of excitons created at high densities, preceding the stage of energy transfer to the Ce3+ ions.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [4];  [5];  [6];  [6];  [5];  [7];  [6];  [4]
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  1. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
  2. Univ. of Bialystok, Bialystok (Poland)
  3. Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
  4. Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague (Czech Republic)
  5. Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw (Poland)
  6. Univ. of Tartu, Tartu (Estonia)
  7. Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States); Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1353205
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1845649
Report Number(s):
LLNL-JRNL-699458
Journal ID: ISSN 2159-3930
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-76SF00515; IUT02-26; TK141; 14-29772S; AC52-07NA27344; LG15013; LH14072
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Optical Materials Express
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 7; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 2159-3930
Publisher:
Optical Society of America (OSA)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; Fluorescent and luminescent materials; Luminescence; Free-electron lasers (FELs); UV, EUV, and X-ray lasers; Laser beam characterization; Radiometry

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Krzywinski, J., Andrejczuk, A., Bionta, R. M., Burian, T., Chalupsky, J., Jurek, M., Kirm, M., Nagirnyi, V., Sobierajski, R., Tiedtke, K., Vielhauer, S., and Juha, L. Saturation of a Ce:Y3Al5O12 scintillator response to ultra-short pulses of extreme ultraviolet soft X-ray and X-ray laser radiation. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.1364/OME.7.000665.
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Krzywinski, J., Andrejczuk, A., Bionta, R. M., Burian, T., Chalupsky, J., Jurek, M., Kirm, M., Nagirnyi, V., Sobierajski, R., Tiedtke, K., Vielhauer, S., & Juha, L. Saturation of a Ce:Y3Al5O12 scintillator response to ultra-short pulses of extreme ultraviolet soft X-ray and X-ray laser radiation. United States. https://doi.org/10.1364/OME.7.000665
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Krzywinski, J., Andrejczuk, A., Bionta, R. M., Burian, T., Chalupsky, J., Jurek, M., Kirm, M., Nagirnyi, V., Sobierajski, R., Tiedtke, K., Vielhauer, S., and Juha, L. Wed . "Saturation of a Ce:Y3Al5O12 scintillator response to ultra-short pulses of extreme ultraviolet soft X-ray and X-ray laser radiation". United States. https://doi.org/10.1364/OME.7.000665. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1353205.
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@article{osti_1353205,
title = {Saturation of a Ce:Y3Al5O12 scintillator response to ultra-short pulses of extreme ultraviolet soft X-ray and X-ray laser radiation},
author = {Krzywinski, J. and Andrejczuk, A. and Bionta, R. M. and Burian, T. and Chalupsky, J. and Jurek, M. and Kirm, M. and Nagirnyi, V. and Sobierajski, R. and Tiedtke, K. and Vielhauer, S. and Juha, L.},
abstractNote = {Investigations of radioluminescence saturation in monocrystalline cerium doped yttrium aluminum garnet (Ce:YAG) exposed to intense extreme ultraviolet (XUV), soft X-ray and X-ray radiation delivered from three free-electron lasers are described in this article. The measurements were performed with wavelengths of 98, 25.6, 13.5 and 0.15 nm. We have found that saturation of the photon yield occurs at an excitation level of 2.0 x 1020 eV/cm3 resulting in an emission of 1.5 x 1018 visible photons per cubic centimeter. This number is much smaller than the concentration of Ce3+ in the scintillator that was equal to 2 x 1020 cm–3. Because the internal radiance efficiency η does not depend strongly on the irradiating photon energy, i.e., η ≈0.035 ± 0.015 in the range 10 to 100 000 eV, the results presented here could be used to predict saturation effects in scintillator slabs placed in imaging systems of bright XUV, X-ray and particle beams. In conclusion, the saturation of the Ce3+ emission is explained by mutual quenching of excitons created at high densities, preceding the stage of energy transfer to the Ce3+ ions.},
doi = {10.1364/OME.7.000665},
journal = {Optical Materials Express},
number = 3,
volume = 7,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 2017},
month = {Wed Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 2017}
}
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Fig. 1 Fig. 1: The layout of the experimental setup. At the TTF FEL and FLASH, the excitation fluence was varied by moving the chamber together with the sample in and out of the focus of the incident beam.
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