Plasma diagnostics using a tabletop soft x-ray laser: demonstration of shadowgraphy and interferometry using a Lloyd's mirror

Kelly Kanizay; Mario C. Marconi; Cesar H. Moreno; Jorge J. G. Rocca; Vyacheslav N. Shlyaptsev; Yurii A. Uspenskii; Alexander V. Vinogradov; Yurii P. Pershin

doi:10.1117/12.366671

21 October 1999 Plasma diagnostics using a tabletop soft x-ray laser: demonstration of shadowgraphy and interferometry using a Lloyd's mirror

Kelly Kanizay, Mario C. Marconi, Cesar H. Moreno, Jorge J. G. Rocca, Vyacheslav N. Shlyaptsev, Yurii A. Uspenskii, Alexander V. Vinogradov, Yurii P. Pershin

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Proceedings Volume 3776, Soft X-Ray Lasers and Applications III; (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.366671
Event: SPIE's International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering, and Instrumentation, 1999, Denver, CO, United States

Abstract

We report the first demonstration of plasma imaging and interferometry using a tabletop soft x-ray laser. A very compact capillary discharge Ne-like Ar laser operating at 46.9 nm was used as a backlighter to study the evolution of the plasma of a micro-capillary discharge. The resulting series of shadowgrams show the plasma created by ablation of the walls of the evacuated micro-capillary rapidly evolves from a non-uniform initial state into a symmetric column with minimum density on axis. In a second experiment we took advantage of the good spatial coherence of the capillary discharge laser to perform interferometry measurements in the plasma of a pinch discharge. In this experiment the laser was used in combination with a wavefront division interferometer based on Lloyd's mirror to map the electron density distribution in the cathode region of the discharge.

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Kelly Kanizay, Mario C. Marconi, Cesar H. Moreno, Jorge J. G. Rocca, Vyacheslav N. Shlyaptsev, Yurii A. Uspenskii, Alexander V. Vinogradov, and Yurii P. Pershin "Plasma diagnostics using a tabletop soft x-ray laser: demonstration of shadowgraphy and interferometry using a Lloyd's mirror", Proc. SPIE 3776, Soft X-Ray Lasers and Applications III, (21 October 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.366671

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