Attosecond time–energy structure of X-ray free-electron laser pulses
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Univ. of Bern, Bern (Switzerland); Coherent Inc., Santa Clara, CA (United States)
- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany); Univ. Kassel, Kassel (Germany)
- Technische Univ. Munchen, Garching (Germany)
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany); European XFEL GmbH, Schenefeld (Germany)
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Univ. of Gothenburg, Gothenburg (Sweden); Qamcom Research & Technology AB, Goteborg (Sweden)
- Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)
- European XFEL GmbH, Schenefeld (Germany)
- Univ. of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, San Sebastian/Donostia (Spain); Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), San Sebastian/Donostia (Spain); IKERBASQUE, Bilbao (Spain)
- European XFEL GmbH, Schenefeld (Germany); Lomonosov Moscow State Univ., Moscow (Russia)
- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany)
- Univ. of Bern, Bern (Switzerland)
- Technische Univ. Munchen, Garching (Germany); Max-Planck-Institut fur Quantenoptik, Garching (Germany)
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Technische Univ. Munchen, Garching (Germany); Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. Munchen, Garching (Germany)
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.
- Research Organization:
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-76SF00515
- OSTI ID:
- 1469768
- Journal Information:
- Nature Photonics, Vol. 12, Issue 4; ISSN 1749-4885
- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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