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Direct Imaging of Laser-driven Ultrafast Molecular Rotation
Published on: February 4, 2017
Extreme ultra-violet movie camera for imaging microsecond time scale magnetic reconnection
Kil-Byoung Chai1, Paul M Bellan1
1Applied Physics, Caltech, 1200 E. California Boulevard, Pasadena, California 91125, USA.
Abstract:
An ultra-fast extreme ultra-violet (EUV) movie camera has been developed for imaging magnetic reconnection in the Caltech spheromak/astrophysical jet experiment. The camera consists of a broadband Mo:Si multilayer mirror, a fast decaying YAG:Ce scintillator, a visible light block, and a high-speed visible light CCD camera. The camera can capture EUV images as fast as 3.3 × 10(6) frames per second with 0.5 cm spatial resolution. The spectral range is from 20 eV to 60 eV. EUV images reveal strong, transient, highly localized bursts of EUV radiation when magnetic reconnection occurs.
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