First x-ray test of the Icarus nanosecond-gated camera

Philip A. Hart*, Arthur Carpenter, Liam Claus, Daniel Damiani, Matthew Dayton, Franz Josef Decker, Arianna Gleason, Philip Heimann, Emily Hurd, Emma McBride, Silke Nelson, Marcos Sanchez, Sanghoon Song, Diling Zhu

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The Icarus camera system, combining a sensor developed by Sandia and readout electronics by LLNL, provides 0.5 Hz bursts of four frames with 3 ns separation. The sensor has 1024×512 25 µm pixels and is 25 µm thick. The system was developed for single line-of-sight measurements at the ns time scale for electrons and X-rays at facilities such as NIF. We report on initial tests of the Icarus system with hard X-rays pulse pairs with nanosecond time spacings at the LCLS, a newly available beam mode. We describe noise, gate profiles, gain, cross-talk, persistence, linearity, and quantum efficiency for the first version of the sensor. We present evidence of the suitability of the system for science measurements at a free electron laser with an X-ray pump X-ray probe experiment. We expect further developments of the technology to allow use of 350 ps bunch separation from the LCLS accelerator and, with a pulsed delay tube like DIXIE, to eventually reach sub-25 ps time-resolved X-ray imaging of processes such as plasma evolution.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of SPIE 2019 - The International Society for Optical Engineering
EditorsThomas Tschentscher, Luc Patthey, Kai Tiedtke, Marco Zangrando
PublisherSPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
ISBN (Electronic)9781510627420
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 24 Apr 2019
Externally publishedYes
EventX-Ray Free-Electron Lasers: Advances in Source Development and Instrumentation V 2019 - Prague, Czech Republic
Duration: 03 Apr 201904 Apr 2019

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume11038
ISSN (Print)0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)1996-756X

Conference

ConferenceX-Ray Free-Electron Lasers: Advances in Source Development and Instrumentation V 2019
Country/TerritoryCzech Republic
CityPrague
Period03/04/201904/04/2019

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank the accelerator team for providing the stable two-pulse trains. AEG’s contribution to experiment/data analysis was supported by the Department of Energy (DOE) through the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences DE-AC02-76SF00515 and by DOE FES through FWP 100492. Use of the LCLS at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences under contract no. DE-AC02-76SF00515.

Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank the accelerator team for providing the stable two-pulse trains. AEG?s contribution to experiment/data analysis was supported by the Department of Energy (DOE) through the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences DE-AC02-76SF00515 and by DOE FES through FWP 100492. Use of the LCLS at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences under contract no. DE-AC02-76SF00515.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 SPIE.

Keywords

  • FEL detectors
  • Icarus
  • LCLS
  • Plasma
  • Shock
  • UXI
  • X-ray imager
  • XPCS

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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