The high sensitivity of traditional diagnostic methods hinders their application in inertial confinement fusion with the pulsed radiation power of target plasma being as high as 1013-1014 W. Different methods of attenuating the incident radiation flux either alter its characteristics or are too complicated. The results of tests of a new detector, where quartz glass is used as a sensing element, at the Angara-5-1 facility are presented. It is demonstrated experimentally that the detector sensitivity is 2 V/(MW cm(2)) and the time resolution is 1 ns. The mechanism of formation of the response signal, where the temperature of electrons produced under irradiation plays a significant part, is discussed.