Signal averaging x-ray streak camera with picosecond jitter

Authors

• Anatoly Maksimchuk, University of MichiganFollow
• M. Kim, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• J. Workman, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• G. Korn, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• J. Squier, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• D. Du, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• Donald Umstadter, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
• G. Mourou, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• M. Bouvier, Medox Electro-Optics Inc., Ann Arbor, Michigan

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

3-1-1996

Comments

Published by American Physical Society. Review of Scientific Instruments 67, 697 (1996). Copyright © 1996 American Physical Society. Permission to use.

Abstract

We have developed an averaging picosecond x-ray streak camera using a dc-biased photoconductive switch as a generator of a high-voltage ramp. The streak camera is operated at a sweep speed of up to 8 ps/mm, shot-to-shot jitter is less than ±1 ps. The streak camera has been used to measure the time history of broadband x-ray emission from an ultrashort pulse laser-produced plasma. Accumulation of the streaked x-ray signals significantly improved the signal-to-noise ratio of the data obtained.