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Spectral Analysis of X-Rays from Laser-Induced Plasmas†

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

J. F. Cuderman  and
K. M. Glibert
J. F. Cuderman
Affiliation:
Sandia Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87115
K. M. Glibert
Affiliation:
Sandia Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87115
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Abstract

Laser interaction experiments have been conducted on Sandia Laboratories' four-beam laser system. In these experiments, pulses of 1.06 μm light of up to 50 J each were focused in a tetrahedral geometry onto CD2 microspheres. A 22-channel x-ray spectrometer which utilises silicon diodes with appropriate K-edge prefilters was used for x-ray measurements. Typically, bremsstrahlung-recombination spectra were observed in the photon regime below about 5 keV. The electron temperatures for this part of the spectrum ranged from a few hundred eV to 1 keV with up to 15 percent of the total laser energy converted to x-rays. Less than one percent of the total energy emitted as x-rays appeared in the spectral range above 5 keV.

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Advances in X-Ray Analysis , Volume 18: Twenty-Third Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis, August 7-9, 1974 , 1974 , pp. 159 - 168
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Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1974

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