1. A new streaked soft x-ray imager for the National Ignition Facility
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Eric M. Gullikson, W. Garbett, Perry M. Bell, Stefan P. Hau-Riege, M. S. Rubery, Christopher G. Bailey, Derek Schmidt, T. M. Guymer, R. Jungquist, Regina Soufli, T. Agliata, M. F. Ahmed, M. Bedzyk, R. L. Hibbard, T. Pardini, John J. L. Morton, J. W. Skidmore, Milton J. Shoup, J. Benstead, Farhad Salmassi, Alastair Moore, S. Reagan, and L. Kot
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Physics ,Photon ,Aperture ,business.industry ,Streak ,Photon energy ,01 natural sciences ,010305 fluids & plasmas ,Engineering ,Optics ,Optical coating ,Physical Sciences ,Chemical Sciences ,0103 physical sciences ,Reflection (physics) ,010306 general physics ,National Ignition Facility ,business ,Instrumentation ,Image resolution ,Applied Physics - Abstract
© 2016 Crown. 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 4× 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.
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- 2016
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