Fig. 1. Dispersion of X rays at a flat single crystal.

Fig. 2. Theoretical rocking curves calculated for reflection of Cu Kα₁ radiation from flat, spherically bent (radius 300 mm), and cylindrically bent (Johann geometry, bending radius 75 mm) crystals of quartz (223) as functions of the angular deviation of the incident beam from the refractive-index-corrected Bragg angle θ_Bcorrected.

Fig. 3. General geometry of spectroscopic schemes with 2D bent crystals.

Fig. 4. Schematic of a vertical dispersion double-crystal spectrometer.

Fig. 5. Geometry of von Hamos-type spectrometer.

Fig. 6. Schematic of a conical crystal spectrometer.

Fig. 7. Schematic of the vertical dispersion geometry Johann spectrometer.

Fig. 8. Schematic of a transmission-crystal hard X-ray spectrometer.

Fig. 9. Geometry of a spherically bent crystal spectrometer in 2D mode.

Fig. 10. Integrated reflectivities R_int calculated for five reflection orders of a mica crystal spherically bent to a radius of 150 mm.

Fig. 11. Overlap of H-, He-, and Li-like Cl transitions observed using the spherically bent mica spectrometer in two diffraction orders.

Fig. 12. K-shell X-ray emission of copper induced by irradiating 1.5μ-thick Cu foils with the PALS kJ laser at an intensity of 10¹⁶ W/cm² and laser wavelengths of 1.315 µm (1ω) and 0.438 µm (3ω).

Fig. 13. Scaling properties of suprathermal electrons propagating in solid-density warm copper visualized with 3D spectroscopic observations. Suprathermal electrons were generated by irradiating the solid copper with the fs-laser ELFIE⁷⁴ at intensities of 10¹⁹ W/cm² and variable distances Δx of the focal spot from the target edge (a). The observed spatially resolved Kα emission along the z direction (note that the color scale is not identical in individual images) for various distances Δx is shown in (b), and the dependence of the scaling length of Kα₁ intensity with respect to Δx in (c).

Fig. 14. X-ray imaging of plasma jets accelerated when irradiating Al foil with the PALS kJ laser. Plasma jets penetrate into the ambient cold gas (air) at a pressure of 19 Pa, thereby inducing a rich spatial and wavelength-dependent structure in the emitted X-ray spectra.

Fig. 15. Plasma jet production at normal (a) and oblique (b) laser incidence on thin Al foil. Even in the latter case, the jet propagates in a direction perpendicular to the foil surface, and this jet is used in investigating trapping of the highly charged Al ions on the secondary target surface (c).

Fig. 16. Spatially resolved spectra of Al Lyγ and Lyδ self-emission from a laser-irradiated double-foil Al/C target. The laser strikes the primary Al-foil target at oblique incidence from below.

Fig. 17. Impact of interference effects (IFE) on the Stark broadening of dielectronic satellite X-ray spectra emitted from 1s2l2l′ and 1s2l3l′ excited states of aluminum. In near-solid-density matter, interference effects result in a crucial emission group narrowing.

Fig. 18. (a) Spatially resolved traces of Al Heα spectra observed as a function of the distance from the surface of a laser-irradiated composite target. (b) The spectrum emitted from the surface of 20-μm-thick Al foil sandwiched between two plastic substrates was decomposed into resonance w, intercombination y, and satellite components using genetic algorithm code fitting.

Fig. 19. Simulations of Kr Lyα emission (13 429/13 509 eV) modified by a variable-intensity, linearly polarized laser beam. Figure provided courtesy of E. Stambulchik.

Fig. 20. K-shell X-ray emission of magnesium irradiated with different laser conditions, using either a beam with extremely high contrast 10¹⁰–10¹¹ or preceded by a prepulse. (a) Comparison of high-contrast and double-pulse spectra of Heβ until Lyβ. (b) Comparison of high-contrast and double-pulse spectra of Heα and satellite emission. The MARIA simulations indicate near solid density n_e ≈ (3–4) × 10²³ cm⁻³, temperature kT_e ≈ 0.2–0.3 keV, and expansion velocities of the order of V ≈ 3 × 10⁷ cm/s. The expansion velocity combined with radiation transport results in a characteristic steep rise in the Heα-intensity on the blue line wing (see the red arrow).

Fig. 21. Distribution function of high-energy electrons observed in PW laser experiments with bare foil (blue lines) and nanowire-coated (red) targets. Owing to the line crossing at lower energies, this energy region represents a very interesting domain for potential X-ray spectroscopic observations. Suprathermal electron populations have been recorded with an electron spectrometer collecting the electrons escaping from the front side of the target.

Fig. 22. K-shell X-ray emission from 1.5-μm-thick aluminum foil irradiated with a 160 J, 0.7 ps, 1.064 µm PW laser beam at I = 3 × 10²⁰ W/cm². Strong hollow ion emission between Lyα and Heα is observed.

Fig. 23. Cartoon of hollow crystal formation due to XFEL irradiation of a solid.

Fig. 24. MARIA code simulations of the XUV spectra induced by XUV-FEL interaction with solid aluminum. (a) Simulations taking into account only the Ne-like transitions K²L⁷M¹–K²L⁸ (blue solid curve). (b) Simulations taking into account the Ne-like transitions K²L⁷M¹–K²L⁸ as well as transitions from dielectronic satellites of Na-like (red dashed curve) and Mg-like (red solid curve) aluminum, K²L⁷M²–K²L⁸M¹ and K²L⁷M³–K²L⁸M², respectively.

Fig. 25. MARIA code simulation of the spectral distribution of Na-like dielectronic satellites K²L⁷M²–K²L⁸M¹ of aluminum, depending on the electron temperature.

Fig. 26. MARIA code simulation of the temporal evolution of hollow ion X-ray emission induced via K-shell photoionization driven by intense XFEL irradiation of a dense aluminum plasma at n_e = 10²¹ cm⁻³ and kT_e = 30 eV in a pump probe configuration. Solid and dashed lines correspond to simulations with photoionization from K¹ switched on and off, respectively.