Initial characterization results of a 1024x448, 25-um multi-frame camera with 2ns integration time for the Ultrafast X-ray Imager (UXI) program at Sandia National Laboratories

L. Claus; G. Robertson; L. Fang; R. Kay; M. W. Kimmel; M. Sanchez; J. W. Stahoviak; D. Trotter; J. L. Porter

doi:10.1117/12.2238538

19 September 2016 Initial characterization results of a 1024x448, 25-μm multi-frame camera with 2ns integration time for the Ultrafast X-ray Imager (UXI) program at Sandia National Laboratories

L. Claus, G. Robertson, L. Fang, R. Kay, M. W. Kimmel, M. Sanchez, J. W. Stahoviak, D. Trotter, J. L. Porter

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Proceedings Volume 9966, Target Diagnostics Physics and Engineering for Inertial Confinement Fusion V; 99660F (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2238538
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2016, San Diego, California, United States

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The Hippogriff camera developed at Sandia National Laboratories as part of the Ultra-Fast X-ray Imager (UXI) program is a high-speed, multi-frame, time-gated imager for use on a wide variety of High Energy Density (HED) physics experiments on both Sandia’s Z-Machine and the National Ignition Facility. The camera is a 1024 x 448 pixel array with 25 μm spatial resolution, containing 2 frames per pixel natively and has achieved 2 ns minimum integration time. It is sensitive to both optical photons as well as soft X-rays up to ~6 keV. The Hippogriff camera is the second generation UXI camera that contains circuitry to trade spatial resolution for additional frames of temporal coverage. The user can reduce the row-wise spatial resolution from the native 25 μm to increase the number of frames in a data set to 4 frames at 50 μm or 8 frames at 100 μm spatial resolution. This feature, along with both optical and X-ray sensitivity, facilitates additional experimental flexibility. Minimum signal is 1500 erms and full well is 1.5 million e-.

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L. Claus, G. Robertson, L. Fang, R. Kay, M. W. Kimmel, M. Sanchez, J. W. Stahoviak, D. Trotter, and J. L. Porter "Initial characterization results of a 1024x448, 25-μm multi-frame camera with 2ns integration time for the Ultrafast X-ray Imager (UXI) program at Sandia National Laboratories", Proc. SPIE 9966, Target Diagnostics Physics and Engineering for Inertial Confinement Fusion V, 99660F (19 September 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2238538

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