A self-referenced in-situ arrival time monitor for X-ray free-electron lasers

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Erscheinungsjahr:
2021
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Schlagworte:
  • Free Electron Lasers
  • Wigglers
  • X-Ray Laser
  • Beams (Radiation)
  • Accelerators
  • Free Electron Lasers
  • Wigglers
  • X-Ray Laser
  • Beams (Radiation)
  • Accelerators
Beschreibung:
  • We present a novel, highly versatile, and self-referenced arrival time monitor for measuring the femtosecond time delay between a hard X-ray pulse from a free-electron laser and an optical laser pulse, measured directly on the same sample used for pump-probe experiments. Two chirped and picosecond long optical supercontinuum pulses traverse the sample with a mutually fixed time delay of 970 fs, while a femtosecond X-ray pulse arrives at an instant in between both pulses. Behind the sample the supercontinuum pulses are temporally overlapped to yield near-perfect destructive interference in the absence of the X-ray pulse. Stimulation of the sample with an X-ray pulse delivers non-zero contributions at certain optical wavelengths, which serve as a measure of the relative arrival time of the X-ray pulse with an accuracy of better than 25 fs. We find an excellent agreement of our monitor with the existing timing diagnostics at the SACLA XFEL with a Pearson correlation value of 0.98. We demonstrate a high sensitivity to measure X-ray pulses with pulse energies as low as 30 μJ. Using a free-flowing liquid jet as interaction sample ensures the full replacement of the sample volume for each X-ray/optical event, thus enabling its utility even at MHz repetition rate XFEL sources.
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  • info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Forschungsinformationssystem der UHH

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