Zone-plate coded imaging of laser-produced plasmas

Abstract
The first successful demonstration of high‐resolution tomographic imaging of a laboratory plasma using a coded imaging technique is reported. Zone‐plate coded imaging has been used to image the x‐ray emission from laser‐compressed D‐T‐filled microballoon targets. The zone‐plate camera exhibited a planar resolution ∼8 μm and had a tomographic resolution of ∼74 μm. This allowed three‐dimensional viewing of the target emission from a single shot in planar slices.