Analysis of simultaneous emission and absorption Ti spectral features observed with the MMI instrument in OMEGA implosions

We discuss the observation and analysis of spectra from titanium-doped OMEGA direct-drive implosions. The targets were spherical plastic shells with a submicron Ti-doped tracer-layer initially located on the inner surface of the shell and filled with deuterium gas. The x-ray signal from the titanium tracer is observed at the collapse of the implosion and recorded with a streaked spectrometer (SSCA) and three identical gated,multi-monochromatic x-ray imager (MMI) instruments that view the implosion along three quasi-orthogonal lines-of-sight. Both streaked and MMI data show simultaneous emission and absorption features due to titanium K-shell line transitions but only the MMI data permits to diagnose the tracer's spatial properties in the core. To this end, MMI data were processed to obtain narrow-band images and spatially-resolved spectra.\footnote{T. Nagayama et al., J. App. Phys.109, 093303 (2011).} Abel inversion of angle-averaged image intensity profiles reveal the spatial distribution of the titanium tracer in the core, while detailed analysis of the space-resolved spectra yields temperature, density and mixing distributions. Results are presented for several shell thicknesses and implosions driven with different laser pulse shapes.