A bright point source of ultrashort hard x-ray pulses using biological cells

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A bright point source of ultrashort hard x-ray pulses using biological cells

M. Krishnamurthy, Sudipta Mondal, Amit D. Lad, Kartik Bane, Saima Ahmed, V. Narayanan, R. Rajeev, Gourab Chatterjee, Prashant Kumar Singh, G. Ravindra Kumar, M. Kundu, and Krishanu Ray »View Author Affiliations

Optics Express, Vol. 20, Issue 5, pp. 5754-5761 (2012)
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We demonstrate that the interaction of intense femtosecond light on a plain solid substrate can be substantially altered by a few micron layer coating of bacterial cells, live or dead. Using E. Coli cells, we show that at an intensity of 10¹⁶W cm⁻², the bremsstraahlung hard x-ray emission (up to 300 keV), is increased by more than two orders of magnitude as compared to a plain glass slab. Particle-in-cell simulations carried out by modeling the bacterial cells as ellipsoidal particles show that the hot electron generation is indeed enhanced by the presence of microstructures. This new methodology should pave way for using microbiological systems of varied shapes to control intense laser produced plasmas for EUV/x-ray generation.

OCIS Codes
(170.1420) Medical optics and biotechnology : Biology
(320.2250) Ultrafast optics : Femtosecond phenomena
(320.7100) Ultrafast optics : Ultrafast measurements
(340.7480) X-ray optics : X-rays, soft x-rays, extreme ultraviolet (EUV)
(350.5400) Other areas of optics : Plasmas

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X-ray Optics

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Original Manuscript: October 14, 2011
Revised Manuscript: November 21, 2011
Manuscript Accepted: November 22, 2011
Published: February 24, 2012

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M. Krishnamurthy, Sudipta Mondal, Amit D. Lad, Kartik Bane, Saima Ahmed, V. Narayanan, R. Rajeev, Gourab Chatterjee, Prashant Kumar Singh, G. Ravindra Kumar, M. Kundu, and Krishanu Ray, "A bright point source of ultrashort hard x-ray pulses using biological cells," Opt. Express 20, 5754-5761 (2012)
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Ayyub, P.
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Burgy, F.
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Darbon, S.
Das, A.
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Kumar, G. R.
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Li, J. S.
Lin, T.
Luo, W.
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Malka, V.
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Sandhu, A. S.
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Sengupta, S.
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Wang, P. X.
Wu, L.
Yadav, S. K.
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App. Phys. B

C. L. Rettig, W. M. Roquemore, and J. R. Gord, “Efficiency and scaling of an ultrashort-pulse high-repetition-rate laser-driven X-ray source,” App. Phys. B, 93, 365–372 (2008). [CrossRef]
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Appl. Phys. Lett.

M. Anand, S. Kahaly, G. Ravindra Kumar, M. Krishnamurthy, A. S. Sandhu, and P. Gibbon, “Enhanced hard x-ray emission from microdroplet preplasma,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 88, 18111 (2006).

Laser Phys.

C. -M. Ma, I. Veltchev, E. Fourkal, J. S. Li, W. Luo, J. Fan, T. Lin, and A. Pollack, “Development of a laser-driven proton accelerator for cancer therapy,” Laser Phys., 16, 639–646 (2006). [CrossRef]

Nature

J. Faure, Y. Glinec, A. Pukhov, S. Kiselev, S. Gordienko, E. Lefebvre, J. P. Rousseau, F. Burgy, and V. Malka, “A laser plasma accelerator producing monoenergetic electron beams,” Nature 431, 541–544 (2004). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Phys. Rev. E

M. A. Porras, “Diffraction effect in few-cycle optical pulses,” Phys. Rev. E 65, 026606 (2002). [CrossRef]

Phys. Rev. Lett.

A. S. Sandhu, G. R. Kumar, S. Sengupta, A. Das, and P. K. Kaw, “Laser-pulse-induced second-harmonic and hard x-ray emission: role of plasma-wave breaking,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 025005 (2005). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
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G. Kulcsár, D. AlMawlawi, F. W. Budnik, P. R. Herman, M. Moskovits, L. Zhao, and R. S. Marjoribanks, Intense picosecond x-ray pulses from laser plasmas by use of nanostructured “velvet” targetsPhys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5149–5152 (2000). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
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Riv. del Nouv. Cim.

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Other

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M. Al-Rabban, M. Richardson, M. Scott, F. Gilleron, M. Poirier, and T. J. Blenski, EUV sources for lithography, SPIE Press, 299–337 (2006).
http://cpicanada.org/CCDB/cgi-bin/STAT_NEW.cgi .
M. T. Madigan, J. M. Martinko, and D. A. Stahl, Brock biology of microorganisms (Pearson Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 2005).

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2008, Rettig, App. Phys. B
2006, Ma, Laser Phys.
2006, Kundu, Phys. Rev. Lett.
2005, Yan, App. Phys. B
2005, Sandhu, Phys. Rev. Lett.
2004, Glinec, Phys. Rev. Lett.
2004, Faure, Nature
2003, Rajeev, Phys. Rev. Lett.
2002, Porras, Phys. Rev. E
2000, Kulcsár, Phys. Rev. Lett.
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[1] D. Giulietti and L. A. Gizzi, “X-ray emission from laser-produced plasmas,” Riv. del Nouv. Cim. 21, 1–93 (1998). [CrossRef]

[2] J. Faure, Y. Glinec, A. Pukhov, S. Kiselev, S. Gordienko, E. Lefebvre, J. P. Rousseau, F. Burgy, and V. Malka, “A laser plasma accelerator producing monoenergetic electron beams,” Nature 431, 541–544 (2004). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[3] C. -M. Ma, I. Veltchev, E. Fourkal, J. S. Li, W. Luo, J. Fan, T. Lin, and A. Pollack, “Development of a laser-driven proton accelerator for cancer therapy,” Laser Phys., 16, 639–646 (2006). [CrossRef]

[4] M. Anand, S. Kahaly, G. Ravindra Kumar, M. Krishnamurthy, A. S. Sandhu, and P. Gibbon, “Enhanced hard x-ray emission from microdroplet preplasma,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 88, 18111 (2006).

[5] P. Gibbon, Short pulse laser interactions with matter (Imperial College Press, London, 2005).

[6] Y. Glinec, J. Faure, L. Le Dain, S. Darbon, T. Hosokai, J. J. Santos, E. Lefebvre, J. P. Rousseau, F. Burgy, B. Mercier, and V. Malka, “High resolution γ-ray radiography produced by a laser-plasma driven electron source,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 025003–025007 (2004). [CrossRef]

[7] M. Al-Rabban, M. Richardson, M. Scott, F. Gilleron, M. Poirier, and T. J. Blenski, EUV sources for lithography, SPIE Press, 299–337 (2006).

[8] P. P. Rajeev, P. Taneja, P. Ayyub, A. S. Sandhu, and G. Ravindra Kumar, “Metal nanoplasmas as bright sources of hard x-ray pulses,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 15003 (2003). [CrossRef]

[9] S. Kahaly, S. K. Yadav, W. M. Yang, S. Sengupta, Z. M. Sheng, A. Das, P. K. Kaw, and G. Ravindra Kumar, “Near-complete absorption of Intense, ultrashort laser light by sub-λ gratings,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 145001 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[10] K. E. Drexler, Nanosystems (Wiley, John & Sons, Inc., 1992).

[11] C. L. Rettig, W. M. Roquemore, and J. R. Gord, “Efficiency and scaling of an ultrashort-pulse high-repetition-rate laser-driven X-ray source,” App. Phys. B, 93, 365–372 (2008). [CrossRef]

[12] A. S. Sandhu, G. R. Kumar, S. Sengupta, A. Das, and P. K. Kaw, “Laser-pulse-induced second-harmonic and hard x-ray emission: role of plasma-wave breaking,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 025005 (2005). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[13] D. W. Forslund, J. M. Kindel, and K. Lee, “Theory of hot-electron spectra at high laser intensity,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 39, 284–288 (1977). [CrossRef]

[14] G. Kulcsár, D. AlMawlawi, F. W. Budnik, P. R. Herman, M. Moskovits, L. Zhao, and R. S. Marjoribanks, Intense picosecond x-ray pulses from laser plasmas by use of nanostructured “velvet” targetsPhys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5149–5152 (2000). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[15] M. Kundu and D. Bauer, “Nonlinear resonance absorption in the laser-cluster interaction,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 123401 (2006). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[16] http://cpicanada.org/CCDB/cgi-bin/STAT_NEW.cgi .

[17] M. A. Porras, “Diffraction effect in few-cycle optical pulses,” Phys. Rev. E 65, 026606 (2002). [CrossRef]

[18] Z. Yan, Y. K. Ho, P. X. Wang, J. F. Hua, Z. Chen, and L. Wu, “Accurate description of ultra-short tightly focused Gaussian laser pulses and vacuum laser acceleration,” App. Phys. B 81, 813–819 (2005). [CrossRef]

[19] M. T. Madigan, J. M. Martinko, and D. A. Stahl, Brock biology of microorganisms (Pearson Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 2005).

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