Efficient ultra short duration x-ray sources based on femtosecond laser interaction with solid targets
FP4 — Training and Mobility of Researchers
- Duration
- 1996-05-01 → 1998-04-30
- EU contribution
- —
- Participants
- 2
- Scheme
- RGI
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Project objective
Many biological. physical and chemical phenomena take place on time scales of tens of picoseconds or less and begin to be studied with the help of X-ray radiation. We propose the use of femtosecond laser-produced plasma sources to explore the sub-10ps probing time scale with suprakilovolt X-rays. Our research project aims to solve two important issues in the use of laser-produced plasma X-ray sources for such studies: i) optimise the laser absorption mechanisms to increase substantially the conversion efficiency of laser energy to X-ray energy in the desired range, and ii) increase the bandwidth of the emitted radiation to several tens of eV to allow near-edge band structure measurements. Experimental work will be completed by numerical simulations using hydrodynamic/electromagnetic and particle-in-cell codes.
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