Advanced laser-backlit grazing-incidence x-ray imaging systems for inertial confinement fusion research. I. Design

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 25, 2001, Pages 4570-4587

  Bennett, Guy R ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FITS AND TOLERANCES; HIGH POWER LASERS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; OPTIMIZATION; RAY TRACING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; X RAY MICROSCOPES;

LARGE PULSED-POWER DEVICES;

INERTIAL CONFINEMENT FUSION;

EID: 0012137162     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.004570     Document Type: Article

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