Z-Backlighter facility upgrades: a path to short/long pulse, multi-frame, multi-color x-ray backlighting at the Z-Accelerator

Jens Schwarz; Patrick Rambo; Matthias Geissel; Mark Kimmel; Marius Schollmeier; Ian Smith; John Bellum; Damon Kletecka; Adam Sefkow; Douglas Smith; Briggs Atherton

doi:10.1117/12.887114

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9 June 2011 Z-Backlighter facility upgrades: a path to short/long pulse, multi-frame, multi-color x-ray backlighting at the Z-Accelerator

Jens Schwarz, Patrick Rambo, Matthias Geissel, Mark Kimmel, Marius Schollmeier, Ian Smith, John Bellum, Damon Kletecka, Adam Sefkow, Douglas Smith, Briggs Atherton

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Proceedings Volume 8080, Diode-Pumped High Energy and High Power Lasers; ELI: Ultrarelativistic Laser-Matter Interactions and Petawatt Photonics; and HiPER: the European Pathway to Laser Energy; 80800E (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.887114
Event: SPIE Optics + Optoelectronics, 2011, Prague, Czech Republic

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We discuss upgrades and development currently underway at the Z-Backlighter facility. Among them are a new optical parametric chirped pulse amplier (OPCPA) front end, 94 cm 42 cm multi layer dielectric (MLD) gratings, dichroic laser beam transport studies, 25 keV x-ray source development, and a major target area expansion. These upgrades will pave the way for short/long pulse, multi-frame, multi-color x-ray backlighting at the Z-Accelerator.

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Jens Schwarz, Patrick Rambo, Matthias Geissel, Mark Kimmel, Marius Schollmeier, Ian Smith, John Bellum, Damon Kletecka, Adam Sefkow, Douglas Smith, and Briggs Atherton "Z-Backlighter facility upgrades: a path to short/long pulse, multi-frame, multi-color x-ray backlighting at the Z-Accelerator", Proc. SPIE 8080, Diode-Pumped High Energy and High Power Lasers; ELI: Ultrarelativistic Laser-Matter Interactions and Petawatt Photonics; and HiPER: the European Pathway to Laser Energy, 80800E (9 June 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.887114

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