Diagnostics of underwater electrical wire explosion through a time- and space-resolved hard x-ray source
2012
A time- and space-resolved hard x-ray source was developed as a diagnostic tool for imaging underwater exploding wires. A ∼4 ns width pulse of hard x-rays with energies of up to 100 keV was obtained from the discharge in a vacuum diode consisting of point-shaped tungsten electrodes. To improve contrast and image quality, an external pulsed magnetic field produced by Helmholtz coils was used. High resolution x-ray images of an underwater exploding wire were obtained using a sensitive x-ray CCD detector, and were compared to optical fast framing images. Future developments and application of this diagnostic technique are discussed.
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