Abstract
An x-ray grating spectrometer was built in order to measure opacities in the 50 eV to 250 eV spectral range with an average spectral resolution EδE ∼ 50. It has been used at the LULI-2000 laser facility at École Polytechnique (France) to measure the Δn=0, n=3 transitions of several elements with neighboring atomic number: Cr, Fe, Ni, and Cu in the same experimental conditions. Hence a spectrometer with a wide spectral range is required. This spectrometer features one line of sight looking through a heated sample at backlighter emission. It is outfitted with one toroidal condensing mirror and several flat mirrors cutting off higher energy photons. The spectral dispersion is obtained with a flatfield grating. Detection consists of a streak camera sensitive to soft x-ray radiation. Some experimental results showing the performance of this spectrometer are presented.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 10E134 |
| Journal | Review of Scientific Instruments |
| Volume | 83 |
| Issue number | 10 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Oct 2012 |