First experiments with a water-jet plasma X-ray source driven by the novel high-power-high-repetition rate L1 Allegra laser at ELI Beamlines

Anna Zymakova, Martin Albrecht, Roman Antipenkov, Alexandr Spacek, Stefan Karatodorov, Ondrej Hort, Jakob Andreasson, Jens Uhlig

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Abstract

ELI Beamlines is a rapidly progressing pillar of the pan-European Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) project focusing on the development and deployment of science driven by high-power lasers for user operations. This work reports the results of a commissioning run of a water-jet plasma X-ray source driven by the L1 Allegra laser, outlining the current capabilities and future potential of the system. The L1 Allegra is one of the lasers developed in-house at ELI Beamlines, designed to be able to reach a pulse energy of 100 mJ at a 1 kHz repetition rate with excellent beam properties. The water-jet plasma X-ray source driven by this laser opens opportunities for new pump-probe experiments with sub-picosecond temporal resolution and inherent synchronization between pump and probe pulses.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1778-1785
Number of pages8
JournalJournal of Synchrotron Radiation
Volume28
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021 Nov 1

Subject classification (UKÄ)

  • Accelerator Physics and Instrumentation

Free keywords

  • compact X-ray sources
  • OPCPA lasers
  • plasma X-ray sources
  • X-ray generation

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