Mykonos Diagnostic Capabilities

Electrical Diagnostics

  • Standard machine diagnostics (machine current and voltage into vacuum chamber)
  • Standard load B-dots (current into load region)
  • Inductive voltage monitor (voltage into load region)
  • Micro-B-dots (small field sensors for localized current measurements)

Optical Diagnostics

  • Four-frame pulsed laser imaging system (170 ps pulsed laser, 5 ns inter-pulse delay) at 1064, 532, 355, and 266 nm
    • Interferometry
    • Shadowgraphy
    • Schlieren
    • Angular filter refractometry
  • Avalanche photodiode (APD) and other diode detectors (time-resolved self-emission, filterable)
  • Two single-frame Andor iStar ICCDs, with minimum exposure time 2-3 ns
  • Four-frame ICCD camera
    • Specialized Imaging Model SIMX4
    • Exposure time: 3 ns – 10 ms in 1 ns steps
    • Inter-frame time: 0 ns – 20 ms in 1 ns steps
  • Eight-frame ICCD camera
    • Cordin Model 222
    • Exposure time: 2.5 ns – 10 ms
    • Inter-frame time: 0 ns – 10 ms in 250 ps steps
  • Twelve-frame ultra-high speed framing camera
    • Invisible Vision UHSi 12/24
    • Exposure time: 5 ns – 1 ms in 5 ns steps
    • Inter-frame time: 0 ns – 10 ms in 5 ns steps
    • Requires coordination with University of New Mexico, ECE department
  • Questar QM100 Long-Distance Microscope assemblies for imaging of ~1 um phenomena
  • Streaked Visible Spectroscopy (SVS)
  • Photonic Doppler Velocimetry (PDV), 2-channel
  • Second-Harmonic Orthogonally Polarized Dispersion Interferometer (SHOP-DI) […]
  • Gated visible spectroscopy (1D spatial distribution)
  • Gated vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) spectroscopy (1D spatial distribution)

X-Ray Diagnostics

  • Filtered PIN diodes
  • Support for image plate
  • Ultra-fast x-ray imager (UXI) (in commissioning phase)

Questions about our diagnostic capabilities? Please contact:

Alex Sarracino

R&D S&E, Electrical Engineering

asarrac@sandia.gov


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