Soft X-ray imaging with multilayer optics in laser fusion experiments

2014 The development of multilayered mirrors for the soft X-ray range allows us to bulld diagnostics capable of imaging dense plasmas at radiation energies less than or equal to 100 eV. Multilayered mirrors have particular applications in laser fusion research. In this area, such instrumentation allow us to study the overcritical zone of laser created plasmas. In this zone where the electromagnetic wave associated with the laser cannot penetrate, the processes of energy transport take place. By the analysis of the radiation emitted from this zone, it is possible to characterize the transport mechanisms. We have used such mirrors to image this zone. The experiments to the described illustrate the use of multilayered mirrors for the study of dense plasmas. Revue Phys. Appl. 23 (1988) 1733-1739 OCTOBRE 1988, PAGE Classification Physics Abstracts 52.35