Bruno Albertazzi, Kazuo Tanaka, Kohei Miyanishi, Tatiana Pikuz, Satoshi Matsuyama, Alexei N. Grum-Grzhimailo, Haruhiko Ohashi, Igor Yu. Skobelev, Norimasa Ozaki, T. Yabuuchi, G. Rigon, Hideaki Habara, Ryosuke Kodama, Alexis Casner, T. Ishikawa, Takeshi Matsuoka, Kento Katagiri, S. S. Makarov, Yuichi Inubushi, Kazuto Yamauchi, Makina Yabashi, S. A. Pikuz, A. Y. Faenov, Tadashi Togashi, N. J. Hartley, M. Koenig, Hirokatsu Yumoto, Yoshinori Tange, Joint Institute for High Temperatures of the RAS (JIHT), Russian Academy of Sciences [Moscow] (RAS), Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives (OTRI), Osaka University [Osaka], Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Photon Pioneers Center, Osaka University, Center for Ultrafast Optical Sciences (CUOS), University of Michigan [Ann Arbor], University of Michigan System-University of Michigan System, Graduate School of Engineering Science [Osaka], Osaka University, Laboratoire pour l'utilisation des lasers intenses (LULI), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-École polytechnique (X)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), Institute of laser Engineering, Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, affiliation inconnue, Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute [Hyogo] (JASRI), RIKEN SPring-8 Center [Hyogo] (RIKEN RSC), RIKEN - Institute of Physical and Chemical Research [Japon] (RIKEN), D.V. Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP), Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), Centre d'Etudes Lasers Intenses et Applications (CELIA), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Bordeaux (UB), The National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute) [Moscow, Russia], Extreme Light Infrastruture - Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP), Division of Chemistry, Graduate School of Sciences, Kyoto University [Kyoto], Graduate School of Engineering, Institute of Laser Engineering (ILE), Graduate School of Engineering Science [Toyonaka, Osaka], Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Kyoto University
We present new diagnostics for use in optical laser pump - X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL) probe experiments to monitor dimensions, intensity profile and focusability of the XFEL beam and to control initial quality and homogeneity of targets to be driven by optical laser pulse. By developing X-ray imaging, based on the use of an LiF crystal detector, we were able to measure the distribution of energy inside a hard X-ray beam with unprecedented high spatial resolution (∼1 μm) and across a field of view larger than some millimetres. This diagnostic can be used in situ, provides a very high dynamic range, has an extremely limited cost, and is relatively easy to be implemented in pump-probe experiments. The proposed methods were successfully applied in pump-probe experiments at the SPring-8 Angstrom Compact free electron LAser (SACLA) XFEL facility and its potential was demonstrated for current and future High Energy Density Science experiments.We present new diagnostics for use in optical laser pump - X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL) probe experiments to monitor dimensions, intensity profile and focusability of the XFEL beam and to control initial quality and homogeneity of targets to be driven by optical laser pulse. By developing X-ray imaging, based on the use of an LiF crystal detector, we were able to measure the distribution of energy inside a hard X-ray beam with unprecedented high spatial resolution (∼1 μm) and across a field of view larger than some millimetres. This diagnostic can be used in situ, provides a very high dynamic range, has an extremely limited cost, and is relatively easy to be implemented in pump-probe experiments. The proposed methods were successfully applied in pump-probe experiments at the SPring-8 Angstrom Compact free electron LAser (SACLA) XFEL facility and its potential was demonstrated for current and future High Energy Density Science experiments.