Calibration and characterization of the line-VISAR diagnostic at the HED-HIBEF instrument at the European XFEL
Year: 2025
Authors: Descamps A., Hutchinson TM., Briggs R., McBride EE., Millot M., Michelat T., Eggert JH., Albertazzi B., Antonelli L., Armstrong MR., Baehtz C., Ball OB., Banerjee S., Belonoshko AB., Benuzzi-Mounaix A., Bolme CA., Bouffetier V., Buakor K., Butcher T., Cerantola V., Chantel J., Coleman AL., Collier J., Collins G., Comley AJ., Coppari F., Cowan TE., Crypisson C., Cristoforetti G., Cynn H., Cafiso SD., Dorchies F., Duff MJ., Dwivedi A., Errandonea D., Galtier E., Ginestet H., Gizzi L., Gleason A., Goede S., Gonzalez JM., Gorman MG., Harmand M., Hartley NJ., Heighway PG., Hernandez-Gomez C., Higginbotham A., Htzppner H., Husband RJ., Hwang H., Kim J., Koester P., Konopkova Z., Kraus D., Krygier A., Labate L., Garcia AL., Lazicki AE., Lee Y., Mason P., Masruri M., Massani B., McGonegle D., McGuire C., McHardy JD., McWilliams RS., Merkel S., Morard G., Nagler B., Nakatsutsumi M., Nguyen-Cong K., Norton AM., Oleynik II., Otzen C., Ozaki N., Pandolfi S., Peake DJ., Pelka A., Pereira KA., Phillips JP., Prescher C., Preston TR., Randolph L., Ranjan D., Ravasio A., Redmer R., Rips J., Santamaria-Perez D., Savage DJ., Schoelmerich M., Schwinkendorf JP., Singh S., Smith J., Smith RF., Sollier A., Spear J., Spindloe C., Stevenson M., Strohm C., Suer TA., Tang M., Tschentscher T., Toncian M., Toncian T., Tracy SJ., Tyldesley M., Vennari CE., Vinci T., Volz TJ., Vorberger J., Walsh JPS., Wark JS., Willman JT., Wollenweber L., Zastrau U., Brambrink E., Appel K., McMahon MI.
Autors Affiliation: Queens Univ Belfast, Sch Math & Phys, Univ Rd, Belfast BT7 1NN, North Ireland; Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab, Livermore, CA 94550 USA; Laser PI, Melbourne, Vic, Australia; European XFEL, Schenefeld, Germany; Ecole Polytech, CNRS, Palaiseau Lab Utilisat Lasers Intenses LULI, UMR 7605, Route Saclay, F-91128 Palaiseau, France; Univ York, Sch Phys Engn & Technol, York YO10 5DD, England; Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf HZDR, Bautzner Landstr 400, D-01328 Dresden, Germany; Univ Edinburgh, Sch Phys & Astron, SUPA, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, Scotland; Univ Edinburgh, Ctr Sci Extreme Condit, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, Scotland; STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab, Cent Laser Facil CLF, Harwell Campus, Didcot OX11 0QX, Oxon, England; Nanjing Univ, Frontiers Sci Ctr Crit Earth Mat Cycling, Sch Earth Sci & Engn, Nanjing 210023, Peoples R China; Royal Inst Technol KTH, AlbaNova Univ Ctr, Dept Phys, Condensed Matter Theory, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden; Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA; Univ Milano Bicocca, Dipartimento Sci Ambiente & Terra, Piazza Sci1e4, I-20126 Milan, Italy; Univ Lille, CNRS, INRAE, Cent Lille,UMR 8207,UMET,Unite Mat & Transformat, F-59000 Lille, France; Univ Rochester, Lab Laser Energet LLE, 250 East River Rd, Rochester, NY 14623 USA; AWE, Reading RG7 4PR, England; Univ Oxford, Dept Phys, Clarendon Lab, Parks Rd, Oxford OX1 3PU, England; Ist Nazl Ottica CNR INO, CNR Consiglio Nazl Ric, Via G Moruzzi 1, I-56124 Pisa, Italy; Univ Bordeaux, CELIA, CNRS, CEA,UMR 5107, F-33400 Talence, France; Univ Valencia UV, Dept Fis Aplicada, ICMUV, C-Dr Moliner 50 Burjassot, E-46100 Burjassot, Spain; SLAC Natl Accelerator Lab, 2575 Sand Hill Rd, Stanford, CA 94025 USA; Univ S Florida, Dept Phys, Tampa, FL 33620 USA; First Light Fus Ltd, Kidlington OX5 1QU, Oxon, England; HESAM Univ, Arts & Metiers Inst Technol, CNRS, CNAM,PIMM, 51 Blvd Hop, F-75013 Paris, France; Deutsch Elektro nen Synchrotron DESY, Notkestr 85, D-22607 Zeuthen, Germany; Hanyang Univ, Dept Phys, 17 Haengdang Dong, Seoul 133791, South Korea; Univ Rostock, Inst Phys, D-18051 Rostock, Germany; Yonsei Univ, Dept Earth Syst Sci, 50 Yonsei Ro, Seoul 03722, South Korea; Univ Grenoble Alpes, Univ Savoie Mt Blanc, Univ Gustave Eiffel, IRD,CNRS,ISTerre, F-38000 Grenoble, France; Albert Ludwigs Univ Freiburg, Inst Geo & Umweltnaturwissenschaft, Hermann Herder Str 5, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany; Osaka Univ, Grad Sch Engn Sci, 2-1 Yamada Oka, Suita, Osaka 565871, Japan; Sorbonne Univ, Inst Mineral Phys Mat & Cosmochimie, Museum Natl Hist Nat, CNRS UMR 7590,IMPMC, F-75005 Paris, France; Univ Massachusetts Amherst, Dept Chem, 690 N Pleasant St Phys Sci Bldg, Amherst, MA 01003 USA; Paul Scherrer Inst, Forschungsstr 111, Villigen, Switzerland; CEA, DAM, DIF, F-91297 Arpajon, France; Univ Paris Saclay, CEA, Lab Matiere Condit Extremes, Bruyeres- Le Chatel, France; Carnegie Sci Earth & Planets Lab, 5241 Broad Branch Rd NW, Washington, DC 20015 USA.
Abstract: In dynamic-compression experiments, the line-imaging Velocity Interferometer System for Any Reflector (VISAR) is a well-established diagnostic used to probe the velocity history, including wave profiles derived from dynamically compressed interfaces and wavefronts, depending on material optical properties. Knowledge of the velocity history allows for the determination of the pressure achieved during compression. Such a VISAR analysis is often based on Fourier transform techniques and assumes that the recorded interferograms are free from image distortions. In this paper, we describe the VISAR diagnostic installed at the HED-HIBEF instrument located at the Euro pean XFEL along with its calibration and characterization. It comprises a two-color (532, 1064 nm), three-arm (with three velocity sensitivities) line imaging system. We provide a procedure to correct VISAR images for geometric distortions and evaluate the performance of the system using Fourier analysis. We finally discuss the spatial and temporal calibrations of the diagnostic. As an example, we compare the pressure extracted from the VISAR analysis of shock-compressed polyimide and silicon. (c) 2025 Author(s). All article content, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Journal/Review: REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS
Volume: 96 (7) Pages from: 75206-1 to: 75206-18
More Information: This work was supported by Grants Nos. EP/S022155/1 (M.I.M., M.J.D.), EP/S025065/1 (J.S.W., D.J.P., P.G.H.), and EP/S023585/1 (A.H., L.A.) from the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.KeyWords: Shock Compression; Laser; Transition; PhaseDOI: 10.1063/5.0271027
