• Acta Photonica Sinica
  • Vol. 51, Issue 2, 0251215 (2022)
Xiaobo TAN1, Xin YAN2, Tao YI3, Kai HE2, Zhengzheng SHAO1, Kaikai ZHOU1, Guilong GAO2, Tao WANG2, Jun ZHANG1, and Zhaowen ZHUANG1、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1College of Electronic Science and Technology,National University of Defense Technology,Changsha 410073,China
  • 2Key Laboratory of Ultra-fast Photoelectric Diagnostics Technology,Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Xi'an 710119,China
  • 3Research Center of Laser Fusion,China Academy of Engineering Physics,Mianyang,Sichuan 621900,China
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    DOI: 10.3788/gzxb20225102.0251215 Cite this Article
    Xiaobo TAN, Xin YAN, Tao YI, Kai HE, Zhengzheng SHAO, Kaikai ZHOU, Guilong GAO, Tao WANG, Jun ZHANG, Zhaowen ZHUANG. Experimental Study on the Spatial Performance of Photorefractive X-ray Semiconductor Ultrafast Response Chip[J]. Acta Photonica Sinica, 2022, 51(2): 0251215 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    The traditional ultrafast electric vacuum devices are usually based on the mechanism of photoelectric conversion, and their performance is restricted by factors such as material response and space-charge effect. It is difficult for the devices like microchannel plate framing cameras, DIlation X-ray Imager (DIXI), streak cameras to achieve high temporal resolution (100 fs~1 ps) and spatial resolution (~μm) two-dimensional imaging. Ultrafast imaging technology based on photorefractive effect is a new ultrafast diagnostic technology, which has the advantages of high spatiotemporal resolution, all-optical, all-solid-state, and anti-radiation. The nonequilibrium carrier lifetime of low-temperature grown AlGaAs (LT-AlGaAs) can reach ps-level. The Ultrafast Response Chip (URC) made of LT-AlGaAs has the characteristics of high temporal resolution, meanwhile, good spatial performance is the other key factor for its application. In this paper, the spatial performance of LT-AlGaAs URC is experimentally studied using X-ray, generated by high-energy nanosecond pulsed laser-produced plasma, as the signal. The results show that the URC has the ability of high spatial resolution and large-scale imaging in the X-ray energy dynamic range of 120∶1. The optimal spatial resolution is ≥ 35 lp/mm @ MTF = 0.1, and the imaging frame can reach 6.7 mm × 6.7 mm. The results further verify the feasibility of ultrafast diagnostic technology based on photorefractive materials. In the future, LT-AlGaAs URC will be combined with ultrafast framing technologies such as dispersion framing and polarization chirp framing to realize multi-frames and high spatiotemporal resolution two-dimensional imaging.
    Xiaobo TAN, Xin YAN, Tao YI, Kai HE, Zhengzheng SHAO, Kaikai ZHOU, Guilong GAO, Tao WANG, Jun ZHANG, Zhaowen ZHUANG. Experimental Study on the Spatial Performance of Photorefractive X-ray Semiconductor Ultrafast Response Chip[J]. Acta Photonica Sinica, 2022, 51(2): 0251215
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