Monochromatic x-ray imaging experiments on the Sandia National Laboratories Z facility (invited)
Creators
- 1. Sandia National Laboratories, P.O. Box 5800, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185-1193 (United States)
Description
The Z facility is a 20 MA, 100 ns rise time, pulsed power driver for z-pinch plasma radiation sources. The Z facility can make >200 TW, 1-2 MJ, near-blackbody radiation sources through the compression of cylindrical wire arrays. These sources are being used as drivers to study inertial-confinement fusion capsule implosions, complex radiation-hydrodynamic jet experiments, and wire-array z-pinch physics tests. To backlight plasmas in this environment we have built diagnostics based on spherically bent crystals that provide high spatial resolution (9-10 μm), a narrow spectral bandpass (<0.5 eV), and a large field of view (4 mmx20 mm). These diagnostics use the 2 TW, multi-kJ Z-Beamlet laser to produce x-ray emission sources at 1.865 or 6.151 keV for backlighting
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1063/1.1779607;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Review of Scientific Instruments
- Journal Volume
- 75
- Journal Issue
- 10
- Journal Page Range
- p. 3672-3677
- ISSN
- 0034-6748
- CODEN
- RSINAK
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 36080049
- Subject category
- S70: PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY;
- Descriptors DEI
- BLACKBODY RADIATION; INERTIAL CONFINEMENT; KEV RANGE 01-10; MONOCHROMATIC RADIATION; PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS; PLASMA JETS; PULSE RISE TIME; SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; X-RAY SOURCES
- Descriptors DEC
- CONFINEMENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ENERGY RANGE; KEV RANGE; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; PLASMA CONFINEMENT; RADIATION SOURCES; RADIATIONS; RESOLUTION; TIMING PROPERTIES; US DOE; US ORGANIZATIONS
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 2004 American Institute of Physics