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Title: Time-resolved x-ray imaging of a laser-induced nanoplasma and its neutral residuals

Abstract

The evolution of individual, large gas-phase xenon clusters, turned into a nanoplasma by a high power infrared laser pulse, is tracked from femtoseconds up to nanoseconds after laser excitation via coherent diffractive imaging, using ultra-short soft x-ray free electron laser pulses. A decline of scattering signal at high detection angles with increasing time delay indicates a softening of the cluster surface. Here we demonstrate, for the first time a representative speckle pattern of a new stage of cluster expansion for xenon clusters after a nanosecond irradiation. The analysis of the measured average speckle size and the envelope of the intensity distribution reveals a mean cluster size and length scale of internal density fluctuations. Furthermore, the measured diffraction patterns were reproduced by scattering simulations which assumed that the cluster expands with pronounced internal density fluctuations hundreds of picoseconds after excitation.

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 [1];  [2];  [2];  [3];  [2];  [2];  [2];  [4];  [2];  [3];  [5];  [6];  [7];  [6];  [6];  [2]
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  1. Technische Univ. Berlin, Berlin (Germany); LaTrobe Univ., Melbourne (Australia)
  2. Technische Univ. Berlin, Berlin (Germany)
  3. Technische Univ. Berlin, Berlin (Germany); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
  4. Technische Univ. Berlin, Berlin (Germany); European XFEL GmbH, Hamburg (Germany)
  5. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
  6. Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany)
  7. Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany); Institute of Mineralogy, Paris (France)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
1256034
Grant/Contract Number:  
05K10KT2; AC02-76SF00515
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
New Journal of Physics
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 18; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 1367-2630
Publisher:
IOP Publishing
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY

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Fluckiger, L., Rupp, D., Adolph, M., Gorkhover, T., Krikunova, M., Muller, M., Oelze, T., Ovcharenko, Y., Sauppe, M., Schorb, S., Bostedt, C., Dusterer, S., Harmand, M., Redlin, H., Treusch, R., and Moller, T. Time-resolved x-ray imaging of a laser-induced nanoplasma and its neutral residuals. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1088/1367-2630/18/4/043017.
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Fluckiger, L., Rupp, D., Adolph, M., Gorkhover, T., Krikunova, M., Muller, M., Oelze, T., Ovcharenko, Y., Sauppe, M., Schorb, S., Bostedt, C., Dusterer, S., Harmand, M., Redlin, H., Treusch, R., & Moller, T. Time-resolved x-ray imaging of a laser-induced nanoplasma and its neutral residuals. United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/18/4/043017
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Fluckiger, L., Rupp, D., Adolph, M., Gorkhover, T., Krikunova, M., Muller, M., Oelze, T., Ovcharenko, Y., Sauppe, M., Schorb, S., Bostedt, C., Dusterer, S., Harmand, M., Redlin, H., Treusch, R., and Moller, T. Wed . "Time-resolved x-ray imaging of a laser-induced nanoplasma and its neutral residuals". United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/18/4/043017. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1256034.
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@article{osti_1256034,
title = {Time-resolved x-ray imaging of a laser-induced nanoplasma and its neutral residuals},
author = {Fluckiger, L. and Rupp, D. and Adolph, M. and Gorkhover, T. and Krikunova, M. and Muller, M. and Oelze, T. and Ovcharenko, Y. and Sauppe, M. and Schorb, S. and Bostedt, C. and Dusterer, S. and Harmand, M. and Redlin, H. and Treusch, R. and Moller, T.},
abstractNote = {The evolution of individual, large gas-phase xenon clusters, turned into a nanoplasma by a high power infrared laser pulse, is tracked from femtoseconds up to nanoseconds after laser excitation via coherent diffractive imaging, using ultra-short soft x-ray free electron laser pulses. A decline of scattering signal at high detection angles with increasing time delay indicates a softening of the cluster surface. Here we demonstrate, for the first time a representative speckle pattern of a new stage of cluster expansion for xenon clusters after a nanosecond irradiation. The analysis of the measured average speckle size and the envelope of the intensity distribution reveals a mean cluster size and length scale of internal density fluctuations. Furthermore, the measured diffraction patterns were reproduced by scattering simulations which assumed that the cluster expands with pronounced internal density fluctuations hundreds of picoseconds after excitation.},
doi = {10.1088/1367-2630/18/4/043017},
journal = {New Journal of Physics},
number = 4,
volume = 18,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Apr 13 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Wed Apr 13 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}
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Figure 1 Figure 1: Schematic diagram of the experimental geometry showing the collinearly incoupled laser beams intersecting the single-cluster beam in the interaction region. An ion time-of-flight spectrometer records the ionized fragments. Scattered photons are collected with a scattering detector comprising of a multi-channel plate (MCP) and a phosphor screen. The phosphormore » screen is imaged with an out-of-vacuum CCD(not depicted here) via a mirror under 45°. Some artefact like dead pixels and decreased detection efficiencies appear in the recorded images which are described in more detail in the supplementary material. Diffraction patterns of individual xenon clusters imaged by soft x-ray scattering reveal the particle size and shape. With the applied source setup a wide size range was produced with the majority of clusters holding a size of 35 nm radius (a) but ranging up to extreme sizes (b)–(d), some even larger than 700 nm in radius (d).« less
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