Strongly aligned gas-phase molecules at free-electron lasers
Abstract
Here, we demonstrate a novel experimental implementation to strongly align molecules at full repetition rates of free-electron lasers. We utilized the available in-house laser system at the coherent x-ray imaging beamline at the linac coherent light source. Chirped laser pulses, i.e., the direct output from the regenerative amplifier of the Ti:Sa chirped pulse amplification laser system, were used to strongly align 2, 5-diiodothiophene molecules in a molecular beam. The alignment laser pulses had pulse energies of a few mJ and a pulse duration of 94 ps. A degree of alignment of $$\langle {\mathrm{cos}}^{2}{\theta }_{2{\rm{D}}}\rangle =0.85$$ was measured, limited by the intrinsic temperature of the molecular beam rather than by the available laser system. With the general availability of synchronized chirped-pulse-amplified near-infrared laser systems at short-wavelength laser facilities, our approach allows for the universal preparation of molecules tightly fixed in space for experiments with x-ray pulses.
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany); Univ. of Hamburg, Hamburg (Germany)
- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany)
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany); European X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL), GmbH, Hamburg (Germany)
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); PULSE Institute, Stanford, CA (United States). SLAC National Accelerator Lab.; Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA (United States)
- Aarhus Univ., Aarhus (Denmark)
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); PULSE Institute, Stanford, CA (United States). SLAC National Accelerator Lab.
- PULSE Institute, Stanford, CA (United States). SLAC National Accelerator Lab.
- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany); Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS (United States)
- Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS (United States)
- Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg (Germany)
- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany); European X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL) GmbH, Hamburg (Germany)
- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1263392
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1238841
- Report Number(s):
- SLAC-PUB-16644
Journal ID: ISSN 0953-4075; arXiv:1506.03650
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-76SF00515
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of Physics. B, Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 48; Journal Issue: 20; Journal ID: ISSN 0953-4075
- Publisher:
- IOP Publishing
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS; PHYS; molecular physics; controlled molecules; alignment; free-electron laser; imaging; coherent diffractive imaging; laser control
Citation Formats
Kierspel, Thomas, Wiese, Joss, Mullins, Terry, Robinson, Joseph, Aquila, Andy, Barty, Anton, Bean, Richard, Boll, Rebecca, Boutet, Sebastien, Bucksbaum, Philip, Chapman, Henry N., Christensen, Lauge, Fry, Alan, Hunter, Mark, Koglin, Jason E., Liang, Mengning, Mariani, Valerio, Morgan, Andrew, Natan, Adi, Petrovic, Vladimir, Rolles, Daniel, Rudenko, Artem, Schnorr, Kirsten, Stapelfeldt, Henrik, Stern, Stephan, Thogersen, Jan, Yoon, Chun Hong, Wang, Fenglin, Trippel, Sebastian, and Kupper, Jochen. Strongly aligned gas-phase molecules at free-electron lasers. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1088/0953-4075/48/20/204002.
Kierspel, Thomas, Wiese, Joss, Mullins, Terry, Robinson, Joseph, Aquila, Andy, Barty, Anton, Bean, Richard, Boll, Rebecca, Boutet, Sebastien, Bucksbaum, Philip, Chapman, Henry N., Christensen, Lauge, Fry, Alan, Hunter, Mark, Koglin, Jason E., Liang, Mengning, Mariani, Valerio, Morgan, Andrew, Natan, Adi, Petrovic, Vladimir, Rolles, Daniel, Rudenko, Artem, Schnorr, Kirsten, Stapelfeldt, Henrik, Stern, Stephan, Thogersen, Jan, Yoon, Chun Hong, Wang, Fenglin, Trippel, Sebastian, & Kupper, Jochen. Strongly aligned gas-phase molecules at free-electron lasers. United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075/48/20/204002
Kierspel, Thomas, Wiese, Joss, Mullins, Terry, Robinson, Joseph, Aquila, Andy, Barty, Anton, Bean, Richard, Boll, Rebecca, Boutet, Sebastien, Bucksbaum, Philip, Chapman, Henry N., Christensen, Lauge, Fry, Alan, Hunter, Mark, Koglin, Jason E., Liang, Mengning, Mariani, Valerio, Morgan, Andrew, Natan, Adi, Petrovic, Vladimir, Rolles, Daniel, Rudenko, Artem, Schnorr, Kirsten, Stapelfeldt, Henrik, Stern, Stephan, Thogersen, Jan, Yoon, Chun Hong, Wang, Fenglin, Trippel, Sebastian, and Kupper, Jochen. Wed .
"Strongly aligned gas-phase molecules at free-electron lasers". United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075/48/20/204002. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1263392.
@article{osti_1263392,
title = {Strongly aligned gas-phase molecules at free-electron lasers},
author = {Kierspel, Thomas and Wiese, Joss and Mullins, Terry and Robinson, Joseph and Aquila, Andy and Barty, Anton and Bean, Richard and Boll, Rebecca and Boutet, Sebastien and Bucksbaum, Philip and Chapman, Henry N. and Christensen, Lauge and Fry, Alan and Hunter, Mark and Koglin, Jason E. and Liang, Mengning and Mariani, Valerio and Morgan, Andrew and Natan, Adi and Petrovic, Vladimir and Rolles, Daniel and Rudenko, Artem and Schnorr, Kirsten and Stapelfeldt, Henrik and Stern, Stephan and Thogersen, Jan and Yoon, Chun Hong and Wang, Fenglin and Trippel, Sebastian and Kupper, Jochen},
abstractNote = {Here, we demonstrate a novel experimental implementation to strongly align molecules at full repetition rates of free-electron lasers. We utilized the available in-house laser system at the coherent x-ray imaging beamline at the linac coherent light source. Chirped laser pulses, i.e., the direct output from the regenerative amplifier of the Ti:Sa chirped pulse amplification laser system, were used to strongly align 2, 5-diiodothiophene molecules in a molecular beam. The alignment laser pulses had pulse energies of a few mJ and a pulse duration of 94 ps. A degree of alignment of $\langle {\mathrm{cos}}^{2}{\theta }_{2{\rm{D}}}\rangle =0.85$ was measured, limited by the intrinsic temperature of the molecular beam rather than by the available laser system. With the general availability of synchronized chirped-pulse-amplified near-infrared laser systems at short-wavelength laser facilities, our approach allows for the universal preparation of molecules tightly fixed in space for experiments with x-ray pulses.},
doi = {10.1088/0953-4075/48/20/204002},
journal = {Journal of Physics. B, Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics},
number = 20,
volume = 48,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Sep 16 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Wed Sep 16 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}
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