Evidence of Extreme Ultraviolet Superfluorescence in Xenon

Mercadier, Laurent; Benediktovitch, A.; Weninger, C.; Blessenohl, M. A.; Bernitt, S.; Bekker, H.; Dobrodey, S.; Sanchez-Gonzalez, A.; Erk, B.; Bomme, C.; Boll, R.; Yin, Z.; Majety, V. P.; Steinbrügge, R.; Khalal, M. A.; Penent, F.; Palaudoux, J.; Lablanquie, P.; Rudenko, A.; Rolles, D.; Crespo López-Urrutia, J. R.; Rohringer, Nina

doi:10.1103/physrevlett.123.023201

Title: Evidence of Extreme Ultraviolet Superfluorescence in Xenon

Journal Article · Wed Jul 10 00:00:00 EDT 2019 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.123.023201· OSTI ID:1610052

Mercadier, Laurent ^[1]; Benediktovitch, A. ^[2]; Weninger, C. ^[3]; Blessenohl, M. A. ^[4]; Bernitt, S. ^[5]; Bekker, H. ^[4]; Dobrodey, S. ^[4]; Sanchez-Gonzalez, A. ^[6]; Erk, B. ^[2]; Bomme, C. ^[2]; Boll, R. ^[2]; Yin, Z. ^[7]; Majety, V. P. ^[3]; Steinbrügge, R. ^[4]; Khalal, M. A. ^[8]; Penent, F. ^[8]; Palaudoux, J. ^[8]; Lablanquie, P. ^[8]; Rudenko, A. ^[9]; Rolles, D. ^[10] more »

Max Planck Inst. for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg (Germany); European XFEL, Schenefeld (Germany)
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany)
Max Planck Inst. for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg (Germany)
Max-Planck-Inst. für Kernphysik, Heidelberg (Germany)
Friedrich-Schiller-Univ. Jena (Germany); Max-Planck-Inst. für Kernphysik, Heidelberg (Germany)
Imperial College, London (United Kingdom)
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany); Max Planck für biophysikalische Chemie, Gottingen (Germany)
Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris (France)
Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS (United States)
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany); Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS (United States)
Max Planck Inst. for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg (Germany); Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany); Univ. Hamburg (Germany)

We present a comprehensive experimental and theoretical study on superfluorescence in the extreme ultraviolet wavelength regime. Focusing a free-electron laser pulse in a cell filled with Xe gas, the medium is quasi-instantaneously population inverted by 4d-shell ionization on the giant resonance followed by Auger decay. On the timescale of ~10 ps to ~100 ps (depending on parameters) a macroscopic polarization builds up in the medium, resulting in superfluorescent emission of several Xe lines in the forward direction. As the number of emitters in the system is increased by either raising the pressure or the pump-pulse energy, the emission yield grows exponentially over four orders of magnitude and reaches saturation. With increasing yield, we observe line broadening, a manifestation of superfluorescence in the spectral domain. Here, our novel theoretical approach, based on a full quantum treatment of the atomic system and the irradiated field, shows quantitative agreement with the experiment and supports our interpretation.

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Research Organization:: Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

Grant/Contract Number:: FG02-86ER13491

OSTI ID:: 1610052

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Journal Information:: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 123, Issue 2; ISSN 0031-9007

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