X-ray sources are created at the Nova and Omega laser by irradiating a confined volume of Ar and Xe gas. The gas is heated by 20–35 kJ of 0.35 μm laser light and becomes a highly ionized mm-sized x-ray source which emits K-shell or L-shell x rays. The radiator is “underdense,” meaning that the initial electron density is lower than the critical density of the laser, nc∼1022 cm−3. It is heated primarily by inverse bremsstrahlung, which produces a supersonic ionization wave. In this paper, x-ray conversion efficiency and imaging from time-resolved and time-integrated diagnostics are compared over a range of experimental parameters. This work represents an important, new method for development of efficient, large-area, tailored multi-keV x-ray sources.
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