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Title: Femtosecond profiling of shaped x-ray pulses

Abstract

Arbitrary manipulation of the temporal and spectral properties of x-ray pulses at free-electron lasers would revolutionize many experimental applications. At the Linac Coherent Light Source at Stanford National Accelerator Laboratory, the momentum phase-space of the free-electron laser driving electron bunch can be tuned to emit a pair of x-ray pulses with independently variable photon energy and femtosecond delay. However, while accelerator parameters can easily be adjusted to tune the electron bunch phase-space, the final impact of these actuators on the x-ray pulse cannot be predicted with sufficient precision. Furthermore, shot-to-shot instabilities that distort the pulse shape unpredictably cannot be fully suppressed. Therefore, the ability to directly characterize the x-rays is essential to ensure precise and consistent control. In this work, we have generated x-ray pulse pairs via electron bunch shaping and characterized them on a single-shot basis with femtosecond resolution through time-resolved photoelectron streaking spectroscopy. This achievement completes an important step toward future x-ray pulse shaping techniques.

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SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States); Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences Division; Science Foundation Ireland (SFI); European Union (EU); Volkswagen Foundation; Friedrich-Alexander-Univ. Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen (Germany). Bavaria California Technology Center (BaCaTeC); National Science Foundation (NSF); National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF); German Research Foundation (DFG); German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
OSTI Identifier:
1437842
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1436472; OSTI ID: 1462712
Grant/Contract Number:  
FPA-2012-0033; 1231306; PHY-1004778; 2014M1A7A1A01030128; 2014M3C1A8048818; 2016K1A3A7A09005386; 12/IA/1742; AC02-76SF00515; FG02-04ER15614; AC02-06CH11357; SFB925/A1.ARM; BMBF-05K16GU2
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
New Journal of Physics
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: New Journal of Physics Journal Volume: 20 Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 1367-2630
Publisher:
IOP Publishing
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; free electron lasers; timing synchronization; pulse characterization; ultrafast; x-ray; THz; terahertz

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Hoffmann, M. C., Grguraš, I., Behrens, C., Bostedt, C., Bozek, J., Bromberger, H., Coffee, R., Costello, J. T., DiMauro, L. F., Ding, Y., Doumy, G., Helml, W., Ilchen, M., Kienberger, R., Lee, S., Maier, A. R., Mazza, T., Meyer, M., Messerschmidt, M., Schorb, S., Schweinberger, W., Zhang, K., and Cavalieri, A. L. Femtosecond profiling of shaped x-ray pulses. United Kingdom: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1088/1367-2630/aab548.
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Hoffmann, M. C., Grguraš, I., Behrens, C., Bostedt, C., Bozek, J., Bromberger, H., Coffee, R., Costello, J. T., DiMauro, L. F., Ding, Y., Doumy, G., Helml, W., Ilchen, M., Kienberger, R., Lee, S., Maier, A. R., Mazza, T., Meyer, M., Messerschmidt, M., Schorb, S., Schweinberger, W., Zhang, K., & Cavalieri, A. L. Femtosecond profiling of shaped x-ray pulses. United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/aab548
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Hoffmann, M. C., Grguraš, I., Behrens, C., Bostedt, C., Bozek, J., Bromberger, H., Coffee, R., Costello, J. T., DiMauro, L. F., Ding, Y., Doumy, G., Helml, W., Ilchen, M., Kienberger, R., Lee, S., Maier, A. R., Mazza, T., Meyer, M., Messerschmidt, M., Schorb, S., Schweinberger, W., Zhang, K., and Cavalieri, A. L. Mon . "Femtosecond profiling of shaped x-ray pulses". United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/aab548.
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@article{osti_1437842,
title = {Femtosecond profiling of shaped x-ray pulses},
author = {Hoffmann, M. C. and Grguraš, I. and Behrens, C. and Bostedt, C. and Bozek, J. and Bromberger, H. and Coffee, R. and Costello, J. T. and DiMauro, L. F. and Ding, Y. and Doumy, G. and Helml, W. and Ilchen, M. and Kienberger, R. and Lee, S. and Maier, A. R. and Mazza, T. and Meyer, M. and Messerschmidt, M. and Schorb, S. and Schweinberger, W. and Zhang, K. and Cavalieri, A. L.},
abstractNote = {Arbitrary manipulation of the temporal and spectral properties of x-ray pulses at free-electron lasers would revolutionize many experimental applications. At the Linac Coherent Light Source at Stanford National Accelerator Laboratory, the momentum phase-space of the free-electron laser driving electron bunch can be tuned to emit a pair of x-ray pulses with independently variable photon energy and femtosecond delay. However, while accelerator parameters can easily be adjusted to tune the electron bunch phase-space, the final impact of these actuators on the x-ray pulse cannot be predicted with sufficient precision. Furthermore, shot-to-shot instabilities that distort the pulse shape unpredictably cannot be fully suppressed. Therefore, the ability to directly characterize the x-rays is essential to ensure precise and consistent control. In this work, we have generated x-ray pulse pairs via electron bunch shaping and characterized them on a single-shot basis with femtosecond resolution through time-resolved photoelectron streaking spectroscopy. This achievement completes an important step toward future x-ray pulse shaping techniques.},
doi = {10.1088/1367-2630/aab548},
journal = {New Journal of Physics},
number = 3,
volume = 20,
place = {United Kingdom},
year = {Mon Mar 26 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Mon Mar 26 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}
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Figure 1 Figure 1: Spoiled emittance for X-ray pulse shaping. Chirped electron bunches are compressed in a magnetic chicane, which is analogous to a prism compressor in ultrafast optics. To generate X-ray pulse pairs, a “V-shaped” slotted aluminium foil is inserted in the centre of the magnetic bunch compressor chicane, where themore » electrons are maximally dispersed in the transverse dimension. The electron beam emittance is preserved for those parts of the bunch that pass through the slots, while the emittance is spoiled for the rest. Upon compression at the exit of the chicane the two unspoiled parts are separated in time by an amount that depends on the lateral separation between the slots in the foil, resulting in the generation of two X-ray pulses in the FEL undulator. Residual energy chirp is eliminated by higher phasing of the fields in the final accelerating modules, as well as higher order effects in the accelerator structure.« less
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