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Title: Attosecond time–energy structure of X-ray free-electron laser pulses

Abstract

Here, the time–energy information of ultrashort X-ray free-electron laser pulses generated by the Linac Coherent Light Source is measured with attosecond resolution via angular streaking of neon 1s photoelectrons. The X-ray pulses promote electrons from the neon core level into an ionization continuum, where they are dressed with the electric field of a circularly polarized infrared laser. This induces characteristic modulations of the resulting photoelectron energy and angular distribution. From these modulations we recover the single-shot attosecond intensity structure and chirp of arbitrary X-ray pulses based on self-amplified spontaneous emission, which have eluded direct measurement so far. We characterize individual attosecond pulses, including their instantaneous frequency, and identify double pulses with well-defined delays and spectral properties, thus paving the way for X-ray pump/X-ray probe attosecond free-electron laser science.

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  1. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Univ. of Bern, Bern (Switzerland); Coherent Inc., Santa Clara, CA (United States)
  2. Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany); Univ. Kassel, Kassel (Germany)
  3. Technische Univ. Munchen, Garching (Germany)
  4. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
  5. Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany); European XFEL GmbH, Schenefeld (Germany)
  6. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Univ. of Gothenburg, Gothenburg (Sweden); Qamcom Research & Technology AB, Goteborg (Sweden)
  7. Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)
  8. European XFEL GmbH, Schenefeld (Germany)
  9. Univ. of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, San Sebastian/Donostia (Spain); Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), San Sebastian/Donostia (Spain); IKERBASQUE, Bilbao (Spain)
  10. European XFEL GmbH, Schenefeld (Germany); Lomonosov Moscow State Univ., Moscow (Russia)
  11. Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany)
  12. Univ. of Bern, Bern (Switzerland)
  13. Technische Univ. Munchen, Garching (Germany); Max-Planck-Institut fur Quantenoptik, Garching (Germany)
  14. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Technische Univ. Munchen, Garching (Germany); Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. Munchen, Garching (Germany)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1469768
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-76SF00515
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Nature Photonics
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 12; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 1749-4885
Publisher:
Nature Publishing Group
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS

Citation Formats

Hartmann, N., Hartmann, G., Heider, R., Wagner, M. S., Ilchen, M., Buck, J., Lindahl, A. O., Benko, C., Grünert, J., Krzywinski, J., Liu, J., Lutman, A. A., Marinelli, A., Maxwell, T., Miahnahri, A. A., Moeller, S. P., Planas, M., Robinson, J., Kazansky, A. K., Kabachnik, N. M., Viefhaus, J., Feurer, T., Kienberger, R., Coffee, R. N., and Helml, W. Attosecond time–energy structure of X-ray free-electron laser pulses. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1038/s41566-018-0107-6.
Hartmann, N., Hartmann, G., Heider, R., Wagner, M. S., Ilchen, M., Buck, J., Lindahl, A. O., Benko, C., Grünert, J., Krzywinski, J., Liu, J., Lutman, A. A., Marinelli, A., Maxwell, T., Miahnahri, A. A., Moeller, S. P., Planas, M., Robinson, J., Kazansky, A. K., Kabachnik, N. M., Viefhaus, J., Feurer, T., Kienberger, R., Coffee, R. N., & Helml, W. Attosecond time–energy structure of X-ray free-electron laser pulses. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-018-0107-6
Hartmann, N., Hartmann, G., Heider, R., Wagner, M. S., Ilchen, M., Buck, J., Lindahl, A. O., Benko, C., Grünert, J., Krzywinski, J., Liu, J., Lutman, A. A., Marinelli, A., Maxwell, T., Miahnahri, A. A., Moeller, S. P., Planas, M., Robinson, J., Kazansky, A. K., Kabachnik, N. M., Viefhaus, J., Feurer, T., Kienberger, R., Coffee, R. N., and Helml, W. Mon . "Attosecond time–energy structure of X-ray free-electron laser pulses". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-018-0107-6. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1469768.
@article{osti_1469768,
title = {Attosecond time–energy structure of X-ray free-electron laser pulses},
author = {Hartmann, N. and Hartmann, G. and Heider, R. and Wagner, M. S. and Ilchen, M. and Buck, J. and Lindahl, A. O. and Benko, C. and Grünert, J. and Krzywinski, J. and Liu, J. and Lutman, A. A. and Marinelli, A. and Maxwell, T. and Miahnahri, A. A. and Moeller, S. P. and Planas, M. and Robinson, J. and Kazansky, A. K. and Kabachnik, N. M. and Viefhaus, J. and Feurer, T. and Kienberger, R. and Coffee, R. N. and Helml, W.},
abstractNote = {Here, the time–energy information of ultrashort X-ray free-electron laser pulses generated by the Linac Coherent Light Source is measured with attosecond resolution via angular streaking of neon 1s photoelectrons. The X-ray pulses promote electrons from the neon core level into an ionization continuum, where they are dressed with the electric field of a circularly polarized infrared laser. This induces characteristic modulations of the resulting photoelectron energy and angular distribution. From these modulations we recover the single-shot attosecond intensity structure and chirp of arbitrary X-ray pulses based on self-amplified spontaneous emission, which have eluded direct measurement so far. We characterize individual attosecond pulses, including their instantaneous frequency, and identify double pulses with well-defined delays and spectral properties, thus paving the way for X-ray pump/X-ray probe attosecond free-electron laser science.},
doi = {10.1038/s41566-018-0107-6},
journal = {Nature Photonics},
number = 4,
volume = 12,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Mar 05 00:00:00 EST 2018},
month = {Mon Mar 05 00:00:00 EST 2018}
}

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Figure 1 Figure 1: Angular streaking resolves the X-ray pulse structure via angle-dependent kinetic energy changes of photoelectrons. X-ray pulses ionize the target gas in the centre of the detector . The concomitant rotating IR laser field modifies the kinetic energy of the photoelectrons depending on their ionization time. Three individual X-raymore » pulses, denominated as shots 1, 2 and 3, overlap in the detection area (dashed orange rectangle, magnified picture on the right) with three IR pulses at different phases of their circularly polarized field and generate clearly distinguishable photoelectron time-energy distributions, shown as false colour polar plots of experimental data . In these plots, the intensity is proportional to the number of photoelectrons, the distance from the centre represents the kinetic energy of the photoelectrons, and the angle along the circle corresponds to the IR phase during photoionization by the X-ray pulse. The intensity structure and pulse duration Ci- m ) of each X-ray pulse can be read from these distributions, similar to reading from a clock face.« less

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