Grazing-incidence spectrometer for soft x-ray and extreme ultraviolet spectroscopy on the National Spherical Torus Experiment

P. Beiersdorfer, M. Bitter, L. Roquemore, J. K. Lepson, M.-F. Cu
2006 Review of Scientific Instruments  
A compact grazing-incidence spectrometer has been implemented on the National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX) for spectral measurements in the 6-65Å spectral region. The spectrometer employed a 2400 /mm grating designed for flat-field focusing and a cryogenically cooled CCD camera for readout. The instrument was tested by recording the K-shell lines of boron, carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen, as well the L-shell lines from argon, iron, and nickel that fall into this spectral band. The observed
more » ... e width was about 0.1Å, which corresponds to a resolving power of 400 for the C V lines. A temporal resolution as fast as 50 ms was obtained.
doi:10.1063/1.2220478 fatcat:7idm6k22inawzcaqtdcvst7xra