Zone-plate coded imaging of laser-produced plasmas

Abstract

The first successful demonstration of high-resolution tomographic imaging of a laboratory plasma using a coded imaging technique is reported. Zone-plate coded imaging has been used to image the x-ray emission from laser-compressed D-T-filled microballoon targets. The zone-plate camera exhibited a planar resolution ∼8 μm and had a tomographic resolution of ∼74 μm. This allowed three-dimensional viewing of the target emission from a single shot in planar slices.