Abstract

KMS Fusion has assembled a laboratory soft x-ray calibration system, which enables a quick response to the needs of laser-plasma experiments. Interest in laser-generated VUV sources has grown from the early work of W. Ehler in 1968 to the detailed line identification studies of J. Reader (NBS). Simultaneously, there has been a dramatic growth in the development of instrumentation for both spectroscopy and detection of 50 eV to multi-keV radiation. Calibration of these instruments, however, has frequently lagged behind their introduction, limiting our ability to accurately interpret their data. This has occurred because typical calibration sources are expensive and/or labor intensive and suffer from an inability for fast turnaround. Our source has become both flexible and capable, presently allowing calibrations in wavelength and intensity from 67.4 Å to 2.76 Å with Kα and Lα sources.

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