Tunable isolated attosecond X-ray pulses with gigawatt peak power from a free-electron laser

Duris, Joseph; Li, Siqi; Driver, Taran; Champenois, Elio G.; MacArthur, James P.; Lutman, Alberto A.; Zhang, Zhen; Rosenberger, Philipp; Aldrich, Jeff W.; Coffee, Ryan; Coslovich, Giacomo; Decker, Franz-Josef; Glownia, James M.; Hartmann, Gregor; Helml, Wolfram; Kamalov, Andrei; Knurr, Jonas; Krzywinski, Jacek; Lin, Ming-Fu; Marangos, Jon P.; Nantel, Megan; Natan, Adi; O’Neal, Jordan T.; Shivaram, Niranjan; Walter, Peter; Wang, Anna Li; Welch, James J.; Wolf, Thomas J.  A.; Xu, Joseph Z.; Kling, Matthias F.; Bucksbaum, Philip H.; Zholents, Alexander; Huang, Zhirong; Cryan, James P.; Marinelli, Agostino

doi:10.1038/s41566-019-0549-5

Tunable isolated attosecond X-ray pulses with gigawatt peak power from a free-electron laser

Journal Article · Mon Dec 02 00:00:00 EST 2019 · Nature Photonics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-019-0549-5· OSTI ID:1605277

^[1]; Li, Siqi ^[2]; ^[3]; Champenois, Elio G.; MacArthur, James P. ^[2]; Lutman, Alberto A. ^[1]; ^[1]; Rosenberger, Philipp ^[4]; Aldrich, Jeff W. ^[1]; Coffee, Ryan ^[5]; Coslovich, Giacomo ^[1]; Decker, Franz-Josef ^[1]; Glownia, James M. ^[5]; Hartmann, Gregor ^[6]; ^[7]; Kamalov, Andrei ^[8]; Knurr, Jonas ^[9]; Krzywinski, Jacek ^[1]; Lin, Ming-Fu ^[1]; more »

SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Dept. of Physics
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Photon Ultrafast Laser Science and Engineering Inst. (PULSE); Imperial College, London (United Kingdom)
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Photon Ultrafast Laser Science and Engineering Inst. (PULSE); Max Planck Society, Garching (Germany). Max Planck Inst. of Quantum Optics; Ludwig Maximilian Univ., Munich (Germany)
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Photon Ultrafast Laser Science and Engineering Inst. (PULSE)
Univ. Kassel (Germany)
Ludwig Maximilian Univ., Munich (Germany); Technische Univ. of Dortmund (Germany); Technische Univ. Munchen, Garching (Germany). Dept. Physik
Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Dept. of Physics; SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Photon Ultrafast Laser Science and Engineering Inst. (PULSE)
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Photon Ultrafast Laser Science and Engineering Inst. (PULSE)
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Photon Ultrafast Laser Science and Engineering Inst. (PULSE); Stanford Univ., CA (United States)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Dept. of Physics; SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Photon Ultrafast Laser Science and Engineering Inst. (PULSE); Stanford Univ., CA (United States)
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Stanford Univ., CA (United States)

The quantum-mechanical motion of electrons in molecules and solids occurs on the sub-femtosecond timescale. Consequently, the study of ultrafast electronic phenomena requires the generation of laser pulses shorter than 1 fs and of sufficient intensity to interact with their target with high probability. Probing these dynamics with atomic-site specificity requires the extension of sub-femtosecond pulses to the soft X-ray spectral region. Here, we report the generation of isolated soft X-ray attosecond pulses with an X-ray free-electron laser. Our source has a pulse energy that is millions of times larger than any other source of isolated attosecond pulses in the soft X-ray spectral region, with a peak power exceeding 100 GW. This unique combination of high intensity, high photon energy and short pulse duration enables the investigation of electron dynamics with X-ray nonlinear spectroscopy and single-particle imaging, unlocking a path towards a new era of attosecond science.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC); German Research Foundation (DFG); USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Chemical Sciences, Geosciences & Biosciences Division

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-76SF00515

OSTI ID:: 1605277

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1607382
OSTI ID: 1633444

Journal Information:: Nature Photonics, Journal Name: Nature Photonics Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 14; ISSN 1749-4885

Publisher:: Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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