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Title: Amplified spontaneous emission in the extreme ultraviolet by expanding xenon clusters

Abstract

Focused short-wavelength free-electron laser (FEL) pulses interacting with gas phase samples can induce by inner-shell ionization a short-lived population inversion, followed by coherent collective emission of directed, short, and strong radiation bursts. We extend our studies into the warm-dense matter (WDM) regime by investigating the nanoplasmas produced in an ensemble of nanometer-sized clusters by FEL irradiation. Here, additional pathways can also lead to strong, laserlike emission: Electron-ion collisions can yield a long-lived population inversion, and subsequent amplified spontaneous emission. We observe amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) in the extreme ultraviolet in xenon clusters excited by soft x-ray FEL pulses, we diagnose the generated nanoplasmas by fluorescence spectroscopy, and we study under various cluster and FEL parameters the directed ASE from the Xe2+ 65 nm line. We show its exponential increase as a function of FEL irradiation power, and an accompanying collisional broadening of the emission spectra. These findings are corroborated by extensive numerical simulations based on theory, combining detailed hydrodynamic and kinetic simulations with time-dependent calculations of radiation transport, amplification, and collective emission in the WDM nanoplasma. Furthermore, our theoretical findings underline that population inversion is due to electron-ion collisions and that the observed decoherence processes can be empirically characterized bymore » a phenomenological decoherence time in the range of 100–200 fs.« less

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  1. Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany)
  2. European X-ray Free-Electron Laser (XFEL), Hamburg (Germany)
  3. Aix-Marseille Univ., Marseille (France)
  4. Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany); Center for Ultrafast Imaging, Hamburg (Germany)
  5. Technische Univ. Berlin (Germany)
  6. Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany); Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS (United States)
  7. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS)
  8. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States)
  9. Imperial College, London (United Kingdom)
  10. Max Planck Inst. fur Kernphysik, Heidelberg (Germany)
  11. Technische Univ. Berlin (Germany); ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
  12. Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany); Univ. of Hamburg (Germany)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1647292
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1634219
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-76SF00515; 05K13KT2; 05K16KT3; 05K10KT2; ID 05K16KT3; 05K10KTB; FG02-86ER13491; MO 719/14-1; MO 719/13-1
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review A
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 101; Journal Issue: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9926
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; laser-cluster interaction; plasma production & heating by laser beams, laser-foil, laser-cluster; spontaneous emission; superradiance & subradiance; clusters; warm-dense matter; fluorescence spectroscopy

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Benediktovitch, Andrei, Mercadier, Laurent, Peyrusse, Olivier, Przystawik, Andreas, Laarmann, Tim, Langbehn, Bruno, Bomme, Cédric, Erk, Benjamin, Correa, Jonathan, Mossé, Caroline, Rolles, Daniel, Toleikis, Sven, Bucher, Maximilian, Bostedt, Christoph O., Sanchez-Gonzalez, Alvaro, Dobrodey, Stepan, Blessenohl, Michael A., Nelde, Alexander, Müller, Maria, Rupp, Daniela, Möller, Thomas, López-Urrutia, José Crespo, and Rohringer, Nina. Amplified spontaneous emission in the extreme ultraviolet by expanding xenon clusters. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1103/physreva.101.063412.
Benediktovitch, Andrei, Mercadier, Laurent, Peyrusse, Olivier, Przystawik, Andreas, Laarmann, Tim, Langbehn, Bruno, Bomme, Cédric, Erk, Benjamin, Correa, Jonathan, Mossé, Caroline, Rolles, Daniel, Toleikis, Sven, Bucher, Maximilian, Bostedt, Christoph O., Sanchez-Gonzalez, Alvaro, Dobrodey, Stepan, Blessenohl, Michael A., Nelde, Alexander, Müller, Maria, Rupp, Daniela, Möller, Thomas, López-Urrutia, José Crespo, & Rohringer, Nina. Amplified spontaneous emission in the extreme ultraviolet by expanding xenon clusters. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.101.063412
Benediktovitch, Andrei, Mercadier, Laurent, Peyrusse, Olivier, Przystawik, Andreas, Laarmann, Tim, Langbehn, Bruno, Bomme, Cédric, Erk, Benjamin, Correa, Jonathan, Mossé, Caroline, Rolles, Daniel, Toleikis, Sven, Bucher, Maximilian, Bostedt, Christoph O., Sanchez-Gonzalez, Alvaro, Dobrodey, Stepan, Blessenohl, Michael A., Nelde, Alexander, Müller, Maria, Rupp, Daniela, Möller, Thomas, López-Urrutia, José Crespo, and Rohringer, Nina. Mon . "Amplified spontaneous emission in the extreme ultraviolet by expanding xenon clusters". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.101.063412. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1647292.
@article{osti_1647292,
title = {Amplified spontaneous emission in the extreme ultraviolet by expanding xenon clusters},
author = {Benediktovitch, Andrei and Mercadier, Laurent and Peyrusse, Olivier and Przystawik, Andreas and Laarmann, Tim and Langbehn, Bruno and Bomme, Cédric and Erk, Benjamin and Correa, Jonathan and Mossé, Caroline and Rolles, Daniel and Toleikis, Sven and Bucher, Maximilian and Bostedt, Christoph O. and Sanchez-Gonzalez, Alvaro and Dobrodey, Stepan and Blessenohl, Michael A. and Nelde, Alexander and Müller, Maria and Rupp, Daniela and Möller, Thomas and López-Urrutia, José Crespo and Rohringer, Nina},
abstractNote = {Focused short-wavelength free-electron laser (FEL) pulses interacting with gas phase samples can induce by inner-shell ionization a short-lived population inversion, followed by coherent collective emission of directed, short, and strong radiation bursts. We extend our studies into the warm-dense matter (WDM) regime by investigating the nanoplasmas produced in an ensemble of nanometer-sized clusters by FEL irradiation. Here, additional pathways can also lead to strong, laserlike emission: Electron-ion collisions can yield a long-lived population inversion, and subsequent amplified spontaneous emission. We observe amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) in the extreme ultraviolet in xenon clusters excited by soft x-ray FEL pulses, we diagnose the generated nanoplasmas by fluorescence spectroscopy, and we study under various cluster and FEL parameters the directed ASE from the Xe2+ 65 nm line. We show its exponential increase as a function of FEL irradiation power, and an accompanying collisional broadening of the emission spectra. These findings are corroborated by extensive numerical simulations based on theory, combining detailed hydrodynamic and kinetic simulations with time-dependent calculations of radiation transport, amplification, and collective emission in the WDM nanoplasma. Furthermore, our theoretical findings underline that population inversion is due to electron-ion collisions and that the observed decoherence processes can be empirically characterized by a phenomenological decoherence time in the range of 100–200 fs.},
doi = {10.1103/physreva.101.063412},
journal = {Physical Review A},
number = 6,
volume = 101,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Jun 22 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Mon Jun 22 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
}

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