14 | | * Also, debris that comes through the hole will cause contamination within the volume of the lens. |
15 | | * Consequence is that capture lens needs to be designed to accept poor vacuum and significant particle contamination. |
16 | | * Various mitigations to large hole (8mm hole at 10cm). This could be small-diameter mylar (or other material) window. Even may need to accept a solenoid rather than a Gabor lens. |
17 | | * //OE//: raised issue of particle diagnostics in addition to the laser diagnostics/laser set-up. |
| 16 | * Also, debris that comes through the hole will cause contamination within the volume of the lens. |
| 17 | * Consequence is that capture lens needs to be designed to accept poor vacuum and significant particle contamination. The target vacuum vessel operates around 10^-4^ to 10^-5^ whereas the Gabor lens operates at a couple of orders of magnitude less. |
| 18 | * Various mitigations to large hole (8mm hole at 10cm). This could be small-diameter mylar (or other material) window. Have made 50 micron thick 50mm diameter windows that can hold off 1 bar. Even may need to accept a solenoid rather than a Gabor lens. |
| 19 | * Can calculate what the pressures would be based on a thick plate with a tapered hole. It's not a problem to set up the simulation to look at a number of different lengths and aperture diameters. |
| 20 | * //OE//: |
| 21 | * Raised issue of particle diagnostics in addition to the laser diagnostics/laser set-up. There is no solution for online non-destructive diagnostics. Current methods include radiochromic films and magnetic spectrometers. |
| 22 | * Running the laser at 10Hz means everything gets coated (with debris from the target) fairly rapidly. |
| 23 | * //KL//: |
| 24 | * Can use a re-entrant shape for the plate. |
| 25 | * //JPas//: |
| 26 | * Beam optics solutions are not a problem (i.e. are within the specs of the Gabor lens) for distances up to 30cm. |
| 27 | |
| 28 | === Summary === |
| 29 | * 10cm has been chosen as the distance from the target to the front face of the first Gabor lens. This is a compromise between allowing enough space for laser diagnostics and having a small enough aperture for differential pumping without significantly collimating the beam. |
| 30 | * CW will calculate the differential pumping performance of a re-entrant, tapered aperture. |
| 31 | * JPas will recalculate the optics for a target to lens distance of 10cm. |
| 32 | |