title: Time-resolved x-ray imaging of anisotropic nanoplasma expansion.
abstract: A complete time-resolved x-ray imaging experiment of laser heated solid-density hydrogen clusters is modeled by microscopic particle-in-cell simulations that account self-consistently for the microscopic cluster dynamics and electromagnetic wave evolution. A technique is developed to retrieve the anisotropic nanoplasma expansion from the elastic and inelastic x-ray scattering data. Our method takes advantage of the self-similar evolution of the nanoplasma density and enables us to make movies of ultrafast nanoplasma dynamics from pump-probe x-ray imaging experiments.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Physik, Universität Rostock, 18051 Rostock, Germany.
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Peltz
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Ottawa, 150 Louis Pasteur, Ontario K1N 6N5, Canada.
authors.forename: Charles
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Varin
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Ottawa, 150 Louis Pasteur, Ontario K1N 6N5, Canada.
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Brabec
authors.affiliation: Institut für Physik, Universität Rostock, 18051 Rostock, Germany.
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Fennel