A tilted pulse-front setup for femtosecond transient grating spectroscopy in highly non-collinear geometries

Battistoni, A.; Dürr, H. A.; Gühr, M.; Wolf, T. J. A.

doi:10.1088/2040-8986/aad60a

Title: A tilted pulse-front setup for femtosecond transient grating spectroscopy in highly non-collinear geometries

Journal Article · Fri Aug 10 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · Journal of Optics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/2040-8986/aad60a· OSTI ID:1468733

Battistoni, A. ^[1]; Dürr, H. A. ^[2]; Gühr, M. ^[3];

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SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Photon Ultrafast Laser Science and Engineering Inst. (PULSE); Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Dept. of Physics
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Science (SIMES)
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Photon Ultrafast Laser Science and Engineering Inst. (PULSE); Univ. of Potsdam, Potsdam (Germany). Inst. für Physik und Astronomie
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Photon Ultrafast Laser Science and Engineering Inst. (PULSE)

We demonstrate a tilted pulse-front transient grating (TG) technique that allows to optimally utilize time resolution as well as TG line density while probing under grazing incidence as typically done in extreme ultraviolet (EUV) or soft x-ray (SXR) experiments. Our optical setup adapts the pulse front tilt of the two pulses that create the TG to the grazing incident pulse. Here, we demonstrate the technique using all 800 nm femtosecond laser pulses for TG generation on a vanadium dioxide film. We probe that grating via diffraction of a third 800 nm pulse. The time resolution of 90 fs is an improvement by a factor of 30 compared to our previous experiments on the same system. Lastly, the scheme paves the way for EUV and SXR probing of optically induced TGs on any material.

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Research Organization:: SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-76SF00515

OSTI ID:: 1468733

Journal Information:: Journal of Optics, Vol. 20, Issue 9; ISSN 2040-8978

Publisher:: IOP PublishingCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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