Projektnummer

0057908

Zusammenfassung

Femtosecond x-ray pulses from free-electron lasers (FEL) are ideally suited for diagnostics of dense relativistic plasmas since dense plasmas are transparent to X-rays. With the advent of X-ray FELs new opportunities for accurate time-resolved measurements of plasma properties are opened. However, extremely high spatial resolution is required due to the small extent of relativistic laser plasmas. To this end, bendable X-ray mirrors will be developed which are capable of resolving the plasma parameters on a micrometer scale. High precision pump-probe experiments are proposed that will p...