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•  This procedure assumes that
  •  the beamline is aligned up to yag3
  •  the slits are aligned to the beam
  •  the yag at TCC has been prealigned with the help of Questar 2 as well (for maximum accuracy) and the pin (the pin is used to measure the LPL spot size and set the plan of interaction)
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  Go to the yag at TCC

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•  Remove the hutch Be CRL
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  Close slits 4 to 50 mic

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•  Set a cross on Questar 1 screen and write down the X and Y positions in the preset spreadsheet of the experiment
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  Close the pulse picker and reinsert the Be CRL

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  Move to the pinhole

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  op.pinhole()

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  Tweak the position of the pinhole until it is centered on the cross

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  py	theme	RDark	linenumbers	true	x.hex_y.tweak(0.02) x.tgx.tweak(0.02)

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  Save the new pinhole position

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  op.pinhole_s()

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  Move back to the yag

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  op.yag()

•  Send the VISAR laser with event code 43 and enable the trigger
•  Confirm that the focus of the VISAR provides a sharp and round image on any VISAR cameras (Visar gige 1 and 2)
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  Tweak the focus of the visar position accordingly (50 mic steps is good enough)

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  op.visar_z.tweak(0.05)

•  Turn off the VISAR trigger
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  Prepare the system to check the front alignment of the drive lasers

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  op.check_front_alignment()

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  Check spatial overlap of the drive beams ABEF and GHIJ successively by centering the scattered signal on the cross of Questar 1 screen

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  py	theme	RDark	linenumbers	true	op.TTL_shutter.Toggle("openABEF") op.TTL_shutter.Toggle("closeGHIJ") x.lpl_west_x.tweak(0.05) x.lpl_west_y.tweak(0.05) op.TTL_shutter.Toggle("closeABEF") op.TTL_shutter.Toggle("openGHIJ") x.lpl_east_x.tweak(0.05) x.lpl_east_y.tweak(0.05)

•  Record each positions of the VISAR and drive lenses in the experiment spreadsheet

Initial Temporal overlap between LPL and X-rays

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  go to Ti sample

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•  remove the Be CRL
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  open slit4 to 400 mic

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  set full X-ray transmission

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  open the pulse picker

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  Open the TCC scope

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  Set the EVR of the scope to 10Hz

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•  Set channel 2 to 2 or 5 mV/div
•  Confirm that the X-ray pulse is seen around 60 ns.
•  Average over 100 sweep and save the trace on M2 (from C2)
•  Set the sweep averaging back to 1
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  Close the pulse picker

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  op.pp.close()

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  Insert the filter in front of Questar 1

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  Set the laser pulse shape to the timing shape

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  Send the 10Hz LPL (enable the trigger of the ns slicer) on target at full energy

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  op.HWPon('all', set_T=1.0)

•  Set the channel 2 to 10 mV/div
•  Confirm you see a trace on C2
•  Average over 100 sweep and save the trace on M3 (from C2)
•  Set the sweep averaging back to 1
•  Take a screenshot and post it to the elog
•  Set the channel 2 to 1V/div
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  Set the scope to single shot trigger

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•  Further fine timing can be done by using a LiF coated window
  •  Move to the appropriate target
  •  Confirm Be CRL are inserted in the beamline
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    Set the timing of the drive to 0

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    op.nstiming.mv(0e-9)

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    Confirm that the streak window have zero offset in the window size requested

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    op.streak_window(visar=1, window=20, offset=0) op.streak_window(visar=2, window=20, offset=0)

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    Take a single refence only shot to observe the change in reflectivity at the arrival time of the X-rays

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    py	theme	RDark	linenumbers	true	op.ref_only( xray_trans=1, xray_num=1, shutters=False, dark=0, daq_end=True, calibrant="", rate=1, visar=True, save=True, slow_cam=False )

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    To double check, confirm timing at another step

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    py	theme	RDark	linenumbers	true	op.nstiming.mv(10e-9) op.ref_only( xray_trans=1, xray_num=1, shutters=False, dark=0, daq_end=True, calibrant="", rate=1, visar=True, save=True, slow_cam=False )

  •  Fine tune the timing is the X-ray trace is not where it is expected using the nstiming.mv function accordingly.

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  Start by moving to the desired target (refer to the python manual here for details on the arguments)

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  py	theme	RDark	linenumbers	true	op.move_to_target(config="colinear", frame_cfg=[1, "F1", 1, "F2", 1, "F3"], frame=2, target="A2")

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  Continue by checking the alignment of the drive lasers

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    Set the system in a mode where the laser energy is minimum, the filter is removed from questar 1 and the trigger is enabled

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    py	theme	RDark	linenumbers	true	op.check_front_alignment()

  •  Confirm you see a scattering signal close to the X-ray cross (342, 561)
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    Move the hexapod X axis to center the beams on the cross and produce a round scattering signal (steps of 50 mic is good)

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    x.hex_x.tweak(0.05)

•  Continue by checking the alignment of the VISAR system
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    Adjust the VISAR Z axis to make sure the image is round and sharp (could be set to the value by using the right equation as well). Steps of 50 mic is good.

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    x.visar_z.tweak(0.05)

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    Alternatively, move the Z value by exactly the thickness of the ablator + material of interest and add the change in position due to the visar window. To calculate the change use the following command

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    py	theme	RDark	linenumbers	true	op.visar_window_compensation(material="LiF", thickness=400e-6)

Take reference images with VISAR and/or X-rays

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  For 5 references with VISAR and X-rays (at 20% max)

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  py	theme	RDark	linenumbers	true	op.ref_only( xray_trans=0.2, xray_num=5, shutters=False, dark=0, daq_end=True, calibrant="", rate=1, visar=True, save=True, slow_cam=False )

Take a driven shot with the LPL

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  For a driven shot at full energy (lpl_ener=1.0), with X-rays arriving 5 ns later (timing=5.0e-9) at full intensity (xray_trans=1) use the following command

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  py	theme	RDark	linenumbers	true	op.optical_shot( shutter_close=[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6], lpl_ener=1.0, timing=5.0e-9 xray_trans=1, xray_threshold=0.2, save=True, daq_end=True, auto_trig=True, auto_charge=True, visar=True, debug=False, ps_opt=True )