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Highly efficient, easily spectrally tunable X-ray backlighting for the study of extreme matter states

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 September 2009

B. Loupias ,
F. Perez ,
A. Benuzzi-Mounaix ,
N. Ozaki ,
M. Rabec ,
L.E. Gloahec ,
T.A. Pikuz ,
A.Ya. Faenov ,
Y. Aglitskiy  and
M. Koenig
B. Loupias
Affiliation:
Laboratoire Pour L'utilisation Des Lasers Intenses, Ecole Polytechnique, France
F. Perez
Affiliation:
Laboratoire Pour L'utilisation Des Lasers Intenses, Ecole Polytechnique, France
A. Benuzzi-Mounaix
Affiliation:
Laboratoire Pour L'utilisation Des Lasers Intenses, Ecole Polytechnique, France
N. Ozaki
Affiliation:
Laboratoire Pour L'utilisation Des Lasers Intenses, Ecole Polytechnique, France Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
M. Rabec
Affiliation:
Laboratoire Pour L'utilisation Des Lasers Intenses, Ecole Polytechnique, France
L.E. Gloahec
Affiliation:
Laboratoire Pour L'utilisation Des Lasers Intenses, Ecole Polytechnique, France
T.A. Pikuz
Affiliation:
Advanced Photon Research Center, Kansai Photon Science Institute, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Kizugawa-city, Kyoto, Japan and Joint Institute For High Temperatures Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
A.Ya. Faenov*
Affiliation:
Advanced Photon Research Center, Kansai Photon Science Institute, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Kizugawa-city, Kyoto, Japan and Joint Institute For High Temperatures Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Y. Aglitskiy
Affiliation:
Science Applications International Corporation, Mclean, Virginia
M. Koenig
Affiliation:
Laboratoire Pour L'utilisation Des Lasers Intenses, Ecole Polytechnique, France
*
Address correspondence and reprint requests to: Anatoly Ya. Faenov, Advanced Photon Research Center, Kansai Photon Science Institute, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Kizugawa-city, Kyoto, 619-0215, Japan. E-mail: faenov.anatoly@jaea.go.jp
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Abstract

An improved high luminosity, easily spectrally tunable backlighting scheme based on a spherically bent crystal is considered in this paper. Contrary to the traditional backlighting scheme, we used crystal far from normal incidence, and the backlighter source was inside the Rowland circle. With the presented configuration, we obtained a spatial resolution up to 8 µm in the desired direction with an X-ray backlighting energy close to 5 keV. Detailed discussions and ray-tracing calculations show that with this convenient scheme resolution down to 5 µm can be achieved. A dedicated application to high energy density physics is presented: the radiography of shock compressed matter.

Keywords

High Energy Density PhysicsLaser-produced plasmashock compressed matterX-ray backlighting
Type
Research Article
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Laser and Particle Beams , Volume 27 , Issue 4 , December 2009 , pp. 601 - 609
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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