Fig. 4
From: X-ray microscopy and talbot imaging with the matter in extreme conditions X-ray imager at LCLS
The MEC long pulse laser impinges on a plastic ablator coated on a Si target. An elastic shock front, followed by a plastic deformation front indicative of material compression travels from top to bottom. Ablator ejecta coming out of the vacuum-ablator interface are also observed. This raw data, background subtracted only, was taken 20 ns after 8 J of a 10 ns long optical laser pulse hit the ablator. For this image, the X-ray free electron laser delivered 2.5 mJ at the photon energy of 8.2 keV with the SASE bandwidth.
