High-energy, high-resolution x-ray imaging on the Trident short-pulse laser facility

A brief review is presented of the main physical processes in laser-produced plasmas. This is followed by illustrations taken from recent work at the S.R.C. Central Laser Facility of the use of X-ray and visible streak cameras for fast time resolved measurements of implosion and interaction phenomena in laser-produced plasmas.

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Development of the PETAL Laser Facility and its Diagnostic Tools

Acta Polytechnica ◽

10.14311/1721 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 53 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Dimitri Batani ◽

Sebastien Hulin ◽

Jean Eric Ducret ◽

Emmanuel D’Humieres ◽

Vladimir Tikhonchuk et al.

Keyword(s):

Short Pulse ◽

High Energy ◽

High Energy Density ◽

Diagnostic Tools ◽

Performance Goal ◽

X Ray ◽

Secondary Sources ◽

Short Pulse Laser ◽

Laser Facility ◽

Operational Phase

The PETAL system (PETawatt Aquitaine Laser) is a high-energy short-pulse laser, currently in an advanced construction phase, to be combined with the French Mega-Joule Laser (LMJ). In a first operational phase (beginning in 2015 and 2016) PETAL will provide 1 kJ in 1 ps and will be coupled to the first four LMJ quads. The ultimate performance goal to reach 7PW (3.5 kJ with 0.5 ps pulses). Once in operation, LMJ and PETAL will form a unique facility in Europe for High Energy Density Physics (HEDP). PETAL is aiming at providing secondary sources of particles and radiation to diagnose the HED plasmas generated by the LMJ beams. It also will be used to create HED states by short-pulse heating of matter. Petal+ is an auxiliary project addressed to design and build diagnostics for experiments with PETAL. Within this project, three types of diagnostics are planned: a proton spectrometer, an electronspectrometer and a large-range X-ray spectrometer.

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Two-color monochromatic x-ray imaging with a single short-pulse laser

Review of Scientific Instruments ◽

10.1063/1.4985729 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 88 (6) ◽

pp. 063502 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

H. Sawada ◽

T. Daykin ◽

H. S. McLean ◽

H. Chen ◽

P. K. Patel ◽

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Keyword(s):

Pulse Laser ◽

Short Pulse ◽

X Ray ◽

Short Pulse Laser ◽

X Ray Imaging

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A high-energy resolution x-ray spectrometer with interchangeable detectors (HEX-ID) for short-pulse laser-plasma experiments.

2011 Abstracts IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science ◽

10.1109/plasma.2011.5993236 ◽

2011 ◽

Author(s):

D.F. Martin ◽

A.L. Meadowcroft

Keyword(s):

Pulse Laser ◽

Energy Resolution ◽

Laser Plasma ◽

Short Pulse ◽

High Energy ◽

High Energy Resolution ◽

X Ray ◽

Short Pulse Laser

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Observation of ejecta tin particles into polymer foam through high-energy X-ray radiograpy using high-intensity short-pulse laser

Acta Physica Sinica ◽

10.7498/aps.68.20182280 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 68 (7) ◽

pp. 076201

Author(s):

Min Shui ◽

Ming-Hai Yu ◽

Gen-Bai Chu ◽

Tao Xi ◽

Wei Fan ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Pulse Laser ◽

High Intensity ◽

Short Pulse ◽

High Energy ◽

Polymer Foam ◽

X Ray ◽

Short Pulse Laser

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The study of time dependent, broadband X-ray emission from ultra-short pulse laser produced plasmas

10.1063/1.46939 ◽

1994 ◽

Author(s):

Ronnie Shepherd ◽

Rex Booth ◽

Dwight Price ◽

Rosemary Walling ◽

Richard More ◽

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Keyword(s):

Pulse Laser ◽

Short Pulse ◽

Time Dependent ◽

X Ray ◽

Short Pulse Laser ◽

Ultra Short Pulse ◽

Ultra Short Pulse Laser

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Short-pulse laser-driven x-ray radiography

High Power Laser Science and Engineering ◽

10.1017/hpl.2016.31 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 4 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

E. Brambrink ◽

S. Baton ◽

M. Koenig ◽

R. Yurchak ◽

N. Bidaut ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Pulse Laser ◽

Short Pulse ◽

Incident Angle ◽

Laboratory Astrophysics ◽

Signal To Noise ◽

High Quality ◽

X Ray ◽

Short Pulse Laser ◽

Short Pulse Lasers

We have developed a new radiography setup with a short-pulse laser-driven x-ray source. Using a radiography axis perpendicular to both long- and short-pulse lasers allowed optimizing the incident angle of the short-pulse laser on the x-ray source target. The setup has been tested with various x-ray source target materials and different laser wavelengths. Signal to noise ratios are presented as well as achieved spatial resolutions. The high quality of our technique is illustrated on a plasma flow radiograph obtained during a laboratory astrophysics experiment on POLARs.

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