Open AccessFirst experiments with a water‐jet plasma X‐ray source driven by the novel high‐power–high‐repetition rate L1 Allegra laser at ELI Beamlines
Author(s) -
Zymaková Anna,
Albrecht Martin,
Antipenkov Roman,
Špaček Alexandr,
Karatodorov Stefan,
Hort Ondřej,
Andreasson Jakob,
Uhlig Jens
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of synchrotron radiation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.172
H-Index - 99
ISSN - 1600-5775
DOI - 10.1107/s1600577521008729
Subject(s) - laser , plasma , optics , jet (fluid) , repetition (rhetorical device) , power (physics) , physics , nuclear physics , linguistics , philosophy , quantum mechanics , thermodynamics
ELI Beamlines is a rapidly progressing pillar of the pan‐European Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) project focusing on the development and deployment of science driven by high‐power lasers for user operations. This work reports the results of a commissioning run of a water‐jet plasma X‐ray source driven by the L1 Allegra laser, outlining the current capabilities and future potential of the system. The L1 Allegra is one of the lasers developed in‐house at ELI Beamlines, designed to be able to reach a pulse energy of 100 mJ at a 1 kHz repetition rate with excellent beam properties. The water‐jet plasma X‐ray source driven by this laser opens opportunities for new pump–probe experiments with sub‐picosecond temporal resolution and inherent synchronization between pump and probe pulses.