X-ray Optics and Diagnostics
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Generation, interaction, imaging, spectroscopy and detection of soft X-rays are studied and applied in various projects. Experimental work is currently enhanced by research into X-ray lasers and diagnostic techniques of hot dense plasmas with high temporal, spectral and spatial resolution applicable generally to astrophysics, thermonuclear fusion, X-ray and non-linear optics. This research includes optical complex interferometry, X-ray imaging, X-ray spectrometry and X-ray detection. Several national and international R&D grants have been obtained mostly for grazing incidence X-ray optical systems and X-ray CCD detectors. Laboratory exploits equipment shared in the Prague Center of Industrial X-ray Tomography and Laser Center Prague.
The research has been linked with other laboratories, e.g. Inst. für Plasma Forschung, Stuttgart, Rutherford and Appleton Laboratory, Didcot; Medical Research Council, Cambridge; Inst. of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion, Warsaw, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, USA, and University Graz.
Projects supported by grants
- Vrbová, M.: X-Ray Laser Pumped by Electric Discharge. IG ČVUT 309811404
- Kálal, M.: A high efficiency soft X-ray laser in the 25-30 nm spectral region,
using optimised prepulsed pumping conditions. Grant of GA CR 202/97/0918
- Vrbová, M.: Preparation of Common Research Project "X-Ray Laser Pumped by
Electrical Discharge". Programme Aktion FJFI 2198412
- Pína, L.: A Novel Approach to X-Ray Fluorescence Micro-Analysis.
Copernicus IC15-CT97-707
- Pína, L.: Innovative Wide-Field X-Ray Optics for Satellite Astronomy. GA CR 102/99/1546
List of Selected Publications and Conference Contributions
- Yuelin Li, J.R.Crespo Lopez-Urrutia, G.D.Tsakiris, R. Sigel,
R.Volk, L.Pina: Comparison of the Spectral Response of a Thinned,
Backside Illuminated CCD with a CsI Coated MCP System and Kodak 101
Film, 4th Int. Colloquium on X-ray Lasers, Williamsburg, Virginia,
May 16-20, 1994
- Hudec R., Inneman A., Pina L., Gorenstein P.: 1995, Replicated
Reflectors for Wide-Field X-ray Imaging Telescopes. Proc. of the
Workshop on Imaging in High Energy Astrophysics, Eds. L. Bassani and
G. Di Cocco, Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands, 1995.
- Hudec, R., Pína, L., Inneman, A., Gorenstein, P., Rezek, T.:
Wide Field X-Ray Telescopes: Detecting X-Ray Transients Afterglows
Related to Gamma Ray Bursts. Nuclear Physics B (Proc. Suppl.)
69/1-3 (1998) pp. 716-719.
- Rus B., Holden, P.B., Mocek, T., Kálal, M., Zeitoun, P., Sebban,
S., Demir, A., Jamelot, G., Králiková, B., Krása, J., Pína, L.,
Skála, J., Tallents, G.: Design of efficient soft X-ray laser using
neonlike Fe driven by iodine laser, SPIE, Vol. 2767 (Iodine Lasers
and Applications), 1996, pp. 125-132.
- Mocek, T., Rus, B., Kálal, M., Zeitoun, P., Demir, A., Jamelot,
G., Králiková, B., Krása, J., Pína, L., Sebban, S., Skála, J.,
Tallents, G.: Experimental investigation of line plasmas created by
intensities 109 - 1011 Wcm-2, SPIE, Vol. 2767 (Iodine Lasers and
Applications), 1996, pp. 133-141.
- Rus, B., Holden, P.B., Mocek, T., Kálal, M., Zeitoun, P, Demir,
A., Králiková, B., Sebban, S., Skála, J., Tallents, G.: A high
efficiency soft X-ray laser in the 25-30 nm spectral region, NATO
ASI Series 3, Vol. 7 (High Power Lasers - Science and Technology),
Kluwer Ac. Publishers, Dordrecht, 1996, pp. 199-216.
- Rus, B., Zeitoun, P., Mocek, T., Sebban, S., Kálal, M., Demir,
A., Jamelot, G., Klisnick, A., Tallents, G.: Investigation of
prepulse plasmas for collisional excitation X-ray lasers, Inst.
Phys. Conf. Ser., No 151, Section 11 (X-ray lasers), Lund, 1996,
pp. 394-398.
- Rus, B., Zeitoun, P., Mocek, T., Sebban, S., Kálal, M., Demir,
A., Jamelot, G., Klisnick, A., Králiková, B., Skála, J., Tallents,
G.J.: Investigation of Zn and Cu prepulse plasmas relevant to
collisional excitation x-ray lasers, Physical Review A, Vol. 56,
1997, pp. 4229-4241.
- Kálal, M., Rus, B., Zeitoun, P., Mocek, T., Seban, S., Demir,
A., Králiková, B., Skála, J., Jamelot, G., Tallents, G.: Studies of
Phenomena Involved in the Prepulse Pumping of Collisional X-ray
Lasers by Optical Interferometry, Advances in Laser Interaction and
Inertial Fusion, Eds. G. Velarde, J.M. Martinez-Val, E. Minguez,
J.M. Perlado, World Publishing Co., Singapore, 1997, pp. 487-490.
- Hudec R., Inneman A., Pina L., Gorenstein P.: A New X-Ray
Telescope for Monitoring the X-ray Afterglows of GRBs. In: Gamma-Ray
Bursts (Ed. Kippen, R.M., Malozzi, R. S. and Fishman, G. J.),
American Institute of Physics 2000, 701-705.
- Hudec R., Pina L. and Inneman A., Gorenstein P., Melich Z.: LE
X-Ray telescopes - Innovative Experiment to Monitor X-ray Afterglows
of GRBs. Nuclear Physics B. (Proc. Suppl.) 80 (2000), 06-15.
- Pina L., Inneman A., Hudec R.: Progress in the Lobster Eye X-ray Optics Development. Proceedings of the International Congress on Optical Science, SPIE, San Diego, USA, August 2000.