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Bright, point X-ray source based on a commercial portable 40 ps Nd:YAG laser system

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2004

ANATOLY FAENOV ,
TATIANA PIKUZ ,
ALEXANDER MAGUNOV ,
DIMITRI BATANI ,
GIANNI LUCCHINI ,
FEDERICO CANOVA  and
MORENO PISELLI
ANATOLY FAENOV
Affiliation:
Multicharged Ions Spectra Data Center (MISDC) of National Research Institute for Physical-Technical and Radiotechnical Measurements, Moscow, Russia
TATIANA PIKUZ
Affiliation:
Multicharged Ions Spectra Data Center (MISDC) of National Research Institute for Physical-Technical and Radiotechnical Measurements, Moscow, Russia
ALEXANDER MAGUNOV
Affiliation:
Multicharged Ions Spectra Data Center (MISDC) of National Research Institute for Physical-Technical and Radiotechnical Measurements, Moscow, Russia A.M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute of RAS, Moscow, Russia
DIMITRI BATANI
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Fisica “G.Occhialini”, Università di Milano Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 3, 20126 Milano, Italy
GIANNI LUCCHINI
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Fisica “G.Occhialini”, Università di Milano Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 3, 20126 Milano, Italy
FEDERICO CANOVA
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Fisica “G.Occhialini”, Università di Milano Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 3, 20126 Milano, Italy
MORENO PISELLI
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Fisica “G.Occhialini”, Università di Milano Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 3, 20126 Milano, Italy
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Abstract

We present some experimental results on X-ray spectra obtained from plasmas produced using a compact Nd:YAG laser system. The beam was focused on different targets (Cu, Al, Ge,…) and both high resolution and low resolution X-ray spectra were recorded.

Keywords

ps laserX-ray plasma sourcesX-ray spectroscopy
Type
Research Article
Information
Laser and Particle Beams , Volume 22 , Issue 3 , July 2004 , pp. 373 - 379
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© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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