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Abstract
Electronic imaging has been undertaken upon one of AWE's high power X-ray pulse accelerators that are used for radiation effects testing of electronic components and small subsystems. Principally, an experimental configuration, based upon a pinhole scintillator combination, has been implemented to test the feasibility of recording by an electronic imaging system for high energy (3 MeV) and high dose (>16 krads) X-ray pulse sources. Recording by CCD based imaging technology has been used to image and verify the uniformity of the bremsstrahlung source. The accelerator of interest was energetic radiation of samples (EROS), which is a 3 MeV, 40 krad, 85 ns pulse source of bremsstrahlung X-rays. Some unique electronic images of the X-ray source are presented. Further, temporal imaging concepts with resolution approaching 1 ns are also described. The fundamental principles of the imaging system can be applied to other pulsed X-ray scenarios.