Femtosecond laser-driven x-ray tube

Andre Egbert; Boris N. Chichkov; Carsten Fallnich; S. Zimmermann; A. Reinhold

doi:10.1117/1.1504459

1 October 2002 Femtosecond laser-driven x-ray tube

Andre Egbert, Boris N. Chichkov, Carsten Fallnich, S. Zimmermann, A. Reinhold

Optical Engineering, Vol. 41, Issue 10, (October 2002). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1504459

A new "indirect" laser-driven ultrashort hard-x-ray source based on the combination of a high-repetition-rate femtosecond laser system with a conventional x-ray tube is demonstrated. By irradiation of a metal cathode with femtosecond laser pulses electron bunches are produced and accelerated toward a high-Z target material in a high voltage electric field. Hard x rays are generated via electron bremsstrahlung and characteristic line emission inside the target. The influence of laser parameters on thermionic electron emission and on the hard-x-ray generation efficiency is studied. A theoretical analysis and a comparison with available ultrashort hard-x-ray sources are given.

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Andre Egbert, Boris N. Chichkov, Carsten Fallnich, S. Zimmermann, and A. Reinhold "Femtosecond laser-driven x-ray tube," Optical Engineering 41(10), (1 October 2002). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1504459

Published: 1 October 2002

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