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Short-pulse, high-brightness X-ray production with the PLEIADES Thomson-scattering source

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PLEIADES is a compact, tunable, high-brightness, ultra-short-pulse, Thomson-scattering X-ray source. Picosecond pulses of hard X-rays (10–200 keV) are created by colliding an ultra-relativistic (20–100 MeV), picosecond-duration electron beam with a high-intensity, sub-picosecond, 800-nm laser pulse. Initial operation of this source has produced 78-keV X-rays with 106 photons per pulse using a 57-MeV, 0.3-nC, 50-μm rms width electron beam and a 180-mJ, 15-μm rms width laser pulse. The angular distribution, energy, and energy spectrum of the source are found to agree well with theory and simulations. Source optimization is expected to increase X-ray output to between 107 and 108 photons per pulse with a peak brightness approaching 1020 photons/s/0.1% bandwidth/mm2/mrad2.

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  1. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Ave., 94550, Livermore, CA, USA

    S.G. Anderson, C.P.J. Barty, S.M. Betts, W.J. Brown, J.K. Crane, R.R. Cross, D.N. Fittinghoff, F.V. Hartemann, J. Kuba, G.P. LeSage, D.R. Slaughter, P.T. Springer & A.M. Tremaine

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    D.J. Gibson

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Anderson, S., Barty, C., Betts, S. et al. Short-pulse, high-brightness X-ray production with the PLEIADES Thomson-scattering source. Appl Phys B 78, 891–894 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-004-1455-0

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