<p>Microstructured foams are emerging as a promising class of targets, with applications ranging from laser-driven particle acceleration to inertial confinement fusion. To unlock their full potential, a deeper understanding of their properties, especially the changes and behavior of the microstructure under extreme conditions, is required. While recently advancing 3D printed foam targets can be observed by X-ray radiography, the microstructure in chemically produced targets is far below the spatial resolution of conventional radiography. To overcome this limitation, we apply grating-based X-ray dark-field imaging to observe structural changes in foams that are rapidly heated by laser-accelerated proton pulses. The experimental data is compared to synthetic dark-field values obtained from hydrodynamic simulations of a simplified foam model. Both experimental and simulation results demonstrate the viability of utilizing grating-based dark-field imaging for observing microstructural changes in foam targets.</p>

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Probing ultrafast foam homogenization with grating-based X-ray dark-field imaging

  • Leonard Wegert,
  • Constantin Rauch,
  • Stephan Schreiner,
  • Markus Schneider,
  • Thilo Michel,
  • Gisela Anton,
  • Bruno Albertazzi,
  • Michel Koenig,
  • Pascal Meyer,
  • Erik Fröjdh,
  • Aldo Mozzanica,
  • Yang Yang,
  • Johannes Hornung,
  • Bernhard Zielbauer,
  • Artem S. Martynenko,
  • Sébastien LePape,
  • Stefan Funk,
  • Paul Neumayer

摘要

Microstructured foams are emerging as a promising class of targets, with applications ranging from laser-driven particle acceleration to inertial confinement fusion. To unlock their full potential, a deeper understanding of their properties, especially the changes and behavior of the microstructure under extreme conditions, is required. While recently advancing 3D printed foam targets can be observed by X-ray radiography, the microstructure in chemically produced targets is far below the spatial resolution of conventional radiography. To overcome this limitation, we apply grating-based X-ray dark-field imaging to observe structural changes in foams that are rapidly heated by laser-accelerated proton pulses. The experimental data is compared to synthetic dark-field values obtained from hydrodynamic simulations of a simplified foam model. Both experimental and simulation results demonstrate the viability of utilizing grating-based dark-field imaging for observing microstructural changes in foam targets.