Progress in X-ray imaging and spectroscopy of ultraintense laser matter interactions

Year: 2010

Authors: Gizzi L.A., Koester P., Labate L., Levato T.

Autors Affiliation: INO CNR Sez Pisa, ILIL, I-56124 Pisa, Italy; Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Pisa, Pisa, Italy; Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, LNF, FLAME, Frascati, Italy

Abstract: Energetics of ultraintense laser-matter interactions are strongly characterized by production of large currents of high energy electrons. We describe recent progress in diagnostics of such electrons and related processes. We use an Energy Encoded Pin-Hole Camera, a novel X-ray imaging technique based on single photon detection to investigate generation and transport of such high energy electrons following the interaction of femtosecond laser pulses with solids at intensities exceeding 5 x 10(19)W/cm(2). The imaging system was configured to work in a single-photon detection regime to identify the energy of the X-ray photons and to discriminate among different X-ray emission processes. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Journal/Review: NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT

Volume: 623 (2)      Pages from: 836  to: 841

More Information: Proceedings Paper: 1st International Conference on Frontiers in Diagnostic Technologies, Frascati, ITALY, NOV 25-29, 2009
KeyWords: Ultra-intense laser-matter interactions; X-ray spectroscopy; X-ray imaging; Fast electron transport; Single photon detection
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2010.04.145

Citations: 1
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