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Design and implementation of a gated-laser entrance hole imaging diagnostic (G-LEH-1) at NIF

2015; SPIE; Volume: 9591; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1117/12.2189124

1996-756X

N. E. Palmer, Hui Chen, J Nelson, Sukhdeep Heerey, K. Piston, M. Thao, Marilyn Schneider, P. M. Bell, D. K. Bradley, J. L. Porter, John Stahoviak, Marcos O. Sanchez, Liam D. Claus,

Advanced Optical Sensing Technologies

Gated x-ray images through the laser entrance hole (LEH) of a hohlraum can provide critical information for ICF experiments at the National Ignition Facility (NIF), such as the size of the LEH vs time, the growth of the gold bubble 1 , and the change in the brightness of inner beam spots due to time-varying cross beam energy transfer 2 . Incorporating a high-speed multi-frame CMOS x-ray imager developed by Sandia National Laboratories 3,4 into the existing Static X-ray Imager (SXI) diagnostic5 at NIF, the new Gated LEH Imager #1 (G-LEH-1) diagnostic is capable of capturing two to four LEH images per shot on its 1024x448 pixel photo detector array, with integration times as low as 2 ns per frame. The design of this diagnostic and its implementation on NIF will be presented.