X-ray photography of laser plasmas with the aid of analyzer crystals bent to form second-order surfaces

A quartz analyzer crystal with the (1010) orientation was bent to form a spherical surface. This device made it possible to obtain an image (magnified by a factor of 2.5) of a plasma jet formed as a result of heating of a CD₂ target by laser radiation of ~16 J energy and ~10¹⁴ W/cm² intensity. The spatial resolution of the object was ~16 μ when the field of view was ~2 mm and the degree of monochromaticity of the recording x-ray radiation was ~10^–3.