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Session 4S - INERTIAL CONFINEMENT FUSION DIAGNOSTICS.
MIXED session, Tuesday afternoon, November 07
Archibald/Cochran, 3rd floor, Tower
We have recently developed a new gated monochromatic x-ray imaging diagnostic for the national ICF program. This new imaging system will be one of the diagnostics to be mounted on University of Rochester's Omega Upgrade laser. The system is based around a Kirkpatrick-Baez (KB) microscope that forms 4 images onto a set of dispersion crystals. The dispersed images are then gated by 4 proximity focused microchannel plates and recorded on film. Spectral coverage is tunable up to 8 keV, spectral resolution has been measured at better than 20 eV, temporal resolution is 80 ps, and spatial resolution is better than 10 \mum. Specific details of the instrumentation will be discussed.