Time-resolved X-ray spectrometry of UV laser produced plasmas

Preliminary experiments using an X-ray streak filter spectrometer employing a Au/CsI bifurcated photocathode to investigate the X-ray history of UV (350 nm) laser produced plasmas are reported. Novel use of the streak spectrometer permits a direct and precise fiducial record of the laser pulse to be made from specularly scattered laser light, in true streak time relative to the X-ray record. Initial data indicates a constant 700 eV temperature during the laser pulse; time-resolved particulars are compared to simulations made by the design code LILAC.     

振镜法测量等离子体离子温度

 离子温度是托卡马克等离子体一个重要参数，介绍了一套振镜扫描装置，该装置主要由0.5m单色仪和安装在出射狭缝前的振动的石英镜片组成，时间分辨率小于10ms，系统测量误差小于20eV。测量了HT-6M托卡马克CV(227.1nm)谱线的线形，并由谱线的多普勒展宽得出欧姆加热和离子回旋共振加热（ICRH）下的离子温度，结果表明ICRH期间离子温度由200eV升高到300eV。这套装置广泛应用在中小型托卡马克上。     

振镜法测量等离子体离子温度

离子温度是托卡马克等离子体一个重要参数,介绍了一套振镜扫描装置,该装置主要由0.5m单色仪和安装在出射狭缝前的振动的石英镜片组成,时间分辨率小于10ms,系统测量误差小于20eV。测量了HT-6M托卡马克CV(227.1nm)谱线的线形,并由谱线的多普勒展宽得出欧姆加热和离子回旋共振加热（ICRH）下的离子温度,结果表明ICRH期间离子温度由200eV升高到300eV。这套装置广泛应用在中小型托卡马克上。     

A neutron beam spectrometer based on a scintillation detector with n-γ pulse shape discrimination

A scintillation spectrometer with pulse shape separation of signals from neutrons and gamma quanta, installed on the RADEX neutron beam channel at the Institute for Nuclear Research is described. The need for n-γ separation is due to the presence of a substantial gamma background at the location of the spectrometer. To optimize n-γ separation, new parameters of the pulse shape separation and methods for calculating them are proposed. Significant improvement in the n-γ separation is obtained. Applying new parameters allows us to use information about only part of the scintillation pulse, enabling the operation of the spectrometer at high count rates and pulse pileup. Such a spectrometer can be used to monitor the RADEX neutron beam channel and determine the energy distribution of neutrons in the beam.     

A time-of-flight spectrometer for angle-resolved detection of low energy electrons in two dimensions

We have developed a time-of-flight photoelectron spectrometer that simultaneously analyzes low energy electrons photoemitted from solid surfaces in an energy- and angle-resolved manner. To achieve this, a field free drift tube with an acceptance angle of 22° is combined with two-dimensional position-sensitive detection of photoelectrons, which is realized by a microchannel plate stack and a delay-line anode for position encoding. Here, we present the design considerations and principles of operation including analysis of multiple events per light pulse. The performance of the spectrometer is demonstrated by photoemission from a Cu(111) single crystalline surface by UV femtosecond laser pulses at 6.2 eV photon energy. PACS 71.20.-b; 73.20.At; 78.47.J-; 79.60.-i     

基于XUV激光脉冲和反应显微成像技术的原子分子光物理实验平台

基于高次谐波技术的超快激光系统可以通过控制脉冲时序实现对目标量子态的精准操控,反应显微成像谱仪实现了4π立体角内对量子少体碰撞过程的准确测量,两项先进系统的结合将极大拓展量子少体动力学研究的领域。目前,高次谐波的单频选择至关重要,同时反应显微成像谱仪的分辨率受真空度及冷靶分散度的影响较大。中国科学院近代物理研究所通过采用多级差分、钛真空靶室的设计,使得谱仪的真空度达到10–11 mbar量级,有效降低了本底噪声的影响;升级改造传统超音速冷靶系统的靶束产生装置,实现了靶厚度的自由调控,大大提高了探测器记录事件的准确性;本实验平台结合高次谐波产生多阶XUV脉冲单能化技术,实现了单能XUV超快激光系统和反应显微成像谱仪成功结合,该系统可以产生能量范围在20~100 eV之间的XUV脉冲,能够研究电离能或解离能在100 eV以下的原子分子动力学过程。     

Sur la fiabilité du pic 1s du carbone de contamination comme étalon interne d'énergie dans les spectres de photoélectrons

The hydrocarbon contamination of an AEI ES 100 spectrometer has been studied in order to determine the reliability of the C 1s line as a standard in X-ray photoelectron spectra of non conducting solids. With alumina samples, it is shown that the contamination layer of this non ultra-high vacuum spectrometer is a suitable standard of energy for the correction of the charging effect and that it gives relative measurements with an accuracy of ± 0.2 eV when the sample temperature is varied from ?180°C to 200dgC or the sample holder is biased between ?10 and 10 V. About 75 spectra were recorded with powdered alumina compressed into a copper grid and the standard deviations of the corrected kinetic energies of the Al 2p and O 1s photoelectrons are respectively 0.09 and 0.06 eV.No effects of the X-ray tube current and the irradiation time are detected. The charging effect increases with the sample temperature (+0.6 eV from ?180 to 200°C).     

Experimental investigation of supersonic radiation propagation in low-density plastic and copper-doped foams

1 Introduction The investigation of supersonic radiation wave transporting in low density foam pro-duced by thermal radiation is of crucial importance in inertial confinement fusion (ICF) research[1]. When the intense radiation flux is incident in the media, first, a supersonic heat wave is formed which propagates into the undisturbed material. In time, due to the increasing mass of heated material, it slows down and is overtaken by a shock wave,thus becoming of the ablative type. Normally, …     

强光一号Z箍缩实验研究

 在强光一号装置驱动电流峰值1.4~2.1 MA、上升时间80~100 ns条件下,研究了喷Kr气、喷Ne气、W丝阵和Al丝阵负载Z箍缩等离子体的辐射特性和聚爆过程。实验研究中,用分压器和两个罗戈夫斯基线圈分别测量二极管的电压和流过负载的电流波形,用过滤型X射线二极管和100~1 400 eV平能谱响应闪烁探测器测量X射线时间谱,用镍薄膜量热计测量X射线总能量,用纳秒时间分辨软X射线图像诊断系统记录了Z箍缩的聚爆过程,用时空分辨的椭圆弯晶谱仪诊断了Z箍缩等离子体产生的keV级特征X射线的能谱分布。其中,喷Kr气负载的X射线辐射总能量大于60 kJ,峰值功率约1.7 TW,总能量转换效率可达23%;W丝阵负载的辐射总能量大于30 kJ,峰值功率约1.30 TW,总能量转换效率约为12.5%;喷Ne气负载的keV级辐射总能量5.6 kJ,峰值功率约256 GW,能量转换效率可达2%; Al丝阵负载的keV级辐射总能量2.3 kJ,峰值功率约94 GW,能量转换效率可达0.8%。喷气负载在Z箍缩聚爆过程中存在“拉链”现象,丝阵负载在Z箍缩聚爆过程中存在先驱现象。     

Generation of chirp-free picosecond pulses

The frequency spectrum of moderately chirped laser pulses depends upon the portion of the beam which is accepted by the spectrometer. Observation of the development of the chirp in a mode-locked pulse train allows to determine the small incipient chirp of early pulses. A product, bandwidth times pulse duration, of 0.47 ± 0.03 is consistently observed for single pulses switched from a passively mode-locked Nd-glass system.     

基于USB总线的一体化核磁共振谱仪控制台

针对台式核磁共振谱仪便携化、小型化的发展趋势，开发了一套基于USB总线的一体化核磁共振谱仪控制台，将控制/通讯部分、脉冲序列控制部分、射频发射部分与信号接收部分集成于一卡，并可实现两种工作模式. 工作模式1：系统基于USB与一台个人计算机通讯，由计算机控制来完成从对谱仪的实时控制到数据处理及显示的所有任务；工作模式2：系统由集成的微处理器控制，不需要计算机的参与，独立完成整个工作进程. 本文详细介绍了该谱仪控制台的设计思路和硬件结构，给出了常规NMR序列的实验结果.     

Generation of an extreme ultraviolet supercontinuum in a two-color laser field

We theoretically investigate the high-order harmonic generation in a helium atom with a two-color optical field synthesized by an intense 6 fs pulse at 800 nm and a relatively weak 21.3 fs pulse at 400 nm. When the frequency-doubled pulse is properly time shifted with respect to the fundamental pulse, an ultrabroad extreme ultraviolet supercontinuum spectrum with a 148 eV spectral width can be generated which directly creates an isolated 65 as pulse even without phase compensation. We explain this extraordinary phenomenon by analyzing maximum electron kinetic energies at different return times.     

正交偏振双色激光场作用下生成的孤立阿秒脉冲

我们理论研究了正交偏振双色激光场作用下的高次谐波发射和孤立阿秒脉冲的产生.当y方向加一束中红外激光脉冲(12.5 fs/2000 nm),x方向加一束强度较弱的激光脉冲(12 fs/800 nm)时,我们得到从250 eV到350 eV的超连续谐波平台,在平台范围内叠加50 eV的谐波,可以得到一个脉宽约为97as的孤立阿秒脉冲. 通过时频分析,我们解释了高次谐波发射的物理机制.     

Single-shot multiple-delay crossed-beam spectral interferometry for measuring extremely complex pulses

We demonstrate a single-shot measurement technique based on spectral interferometry (SI) for measuring the complete intensity and phase vs. time of extremely complex ultrashort laser pulses. Ordinarily, such a method would require an extremely-high-resolution spectrometer, but, by temporally interleaving many SI measurements, each using a different reference-pulse delay, our method overcomes this need. It involves introducing a transverse time delay into the reference pulse by tilting its pulse front transversely to the spectrometer dispersion plane. The tilted reference pulse then gates the unknown pulse by interfering with it at the image plane of a low-resolution imaging spectrometer, yielding an effective increase in the delay range and spectral resolution—by a factor of 30 in our proof-of-principle implementation. Our device achieved a temporal resolution of ~ 130 fs and a temporal range of 120 ps. This simple device has the potential to measure even longer and more complex pulses.     

A verification of the relativistic correction for electro-static electron spectrometers

The relativistic predictions for the non-linear calibration of a spherical sector electron spectrometer, operated with retardation in the constant δE/E mode, is verified to an accuracy of ± 0.05 eV over the energy range 0–2500 eV. The verification, involving the comparison of the energy deficit measured between the energy of peaks in the constant δE mode with that in the constant δE/E mode, is obtained by the use of an elastically reflected electron beam at 100 eV intervals over the full energy range. The energy deficit, for a VG Scientific ESCA 3 Mk II with a retard ratio of 1.656, increases from zero at 0 eV to 2.28 eV at 2500 eV. It is concluded that the spectrometer is very well behaved and that the established relativity theory is accurately verified in this investigation.     

一种超快时间分辨速度干涉仪的设计和理论研究

在单发、超快时间分辨的测量技术中,线性啁啾脉冲和光谱仪的结合使用是一种常见方法.本文以成像型光谱仪为记录系统,利用线性啁啾脉冲的频-时对应关系,设计了一种应用于自由面速度超快测量的速度干涉仪.理论研究了其工作原理和适用范围,该速度干涉仪可以实现皮秒量级的时间分辨,且速度灵敏度可调、易调,大大拓宽了速度干涉仪的应用范围.数值模拟了系统的测速过程,结果表明,重建速度信号与给定物体速度符合得很好,进一步验证了系统的可行性.     

Phase matching, quasi-phase matching, and pulse compression in a single waveguide for enhanced high-harmonic generation

We demonstrate, for the first time to our knowledge, that the efficient region of high-harmonic generation can be shifted from lower to higher photon energies by combining phase matching, quasi-phase matching, and pulse compression in a single gas-filled waveguide. An intrawaveguide pulse compression process that works through a combination of ionization-induced refraction and guiding shortens the laser pulse as it propagates through an Ar-filled waveguide. This leads to enhanced harmonic emission at high photon energies near 95 eV while it reduces emission at low photon energies near 45 eV. The waveguide geometry also mitigates ionization-induced refraction, allowing Ar gas with high effective nonlinear susceptibility to be used.     

EELS performance measurements on a new high energy resolution imaging filter

In this paper we characterize the spectroscopy performance of a new high resolution electron energy-loss spectrometer for transmission electron microscopy, recently installed in our lab. With the event of commercially available monochromated transmission electron microscopes, equipped with improved spectrometers, experiments became feasible that allow the study of chemical bonding and electronic structures of atoms and solids at the nanometer level with an energy resolution in the range of 0.2-0.3 eV. This significant enhancement in resolution, however, can only be fully harnessed with an optimized microscope and spectrometer setup and in a suitable local environment. We attempt to quantify some of the limiting factors on our system with emphasis on spectrum mixing, spectrometer aberrations and transmissivity and we sketch proper working conditions in order to achieve the desired performance.     

Frequency-domain streak camera for ultrafast imaging of evolving light-velocity objects

We demonstrate a frequency-domain streak camera (FDSC) that captures the picosecond time evolution of luminal-velocity refractive index structures in a single shot. In our prototype FDSC, a probe-reference pulse pair propagates obliquely to a subpicosecond pump pulse that creates an evolving nonlinear index structure in glass, supplementing a conventional frequency-domain holographic probe-reference pair that copropagates with the pump. A single spectrometer acquires data from both pairs via spatial or temporal multiplexing, demonstrating the feasibility of a compact frequency-domain tomographic system in which a single spectrometer processes data from multiple probing angles.     

低偶然符合效应的高脉冲分辨能力数字化X荧光能谱仪研制

在X荧光能谱测量中,当两个事例发生间隔较短时,存在脉冲前沿或后沿堆积的情况.如果能谱仪的脉冲分辨能力不足,在事例发生间隔小于能谱仪脉冲分辨能力时,发生了偶然符合效应.当堆积发生在信号的上升沿时,后端电子学无法识别堆积脉冲,并将堆积脉冲当成1个脉冲,从而在测量能谱中会产生虚假能峰;当堆积出现在下降沿时,堆积信号间隔小于通...