Two-dimensional interferogram of an exploding selenium foil using asoft X-ray laser interferometer |
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| Authors: | Da Silva LB Cauble R Barbee TW Jr Celliers P Ciarlo D Libby S London RA Matthews D Mrowka S Moreno JC Ress D Trebes JE Wan AS Weber F |
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| Institution: | Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab., CA; |
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| Abstract: | We have developed a soft X-ray interferometer capable of probing large high-density plasmas with micron spatial resolutions. A neon-like yttrium X-ray laser operating at 155 Å was combined with the Mach-Zehnder interferometer to obtain electron density profiles of a laser-produced exploding selenium foil plasma. The plasma was produced with one Nova laser beam using a 120-μm line focus, the same conditions used to create a selenium X-ray laser. The interferogram of the selenium plasma was obtained from an end-on perspective |
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