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Light Sources. Ulrike Frühling Bad Honnef 2014. Wave length range. VUV - Soft X-Ray 200nm - 0.1nm 6 eV – 1.2 keV. Wave length range. Advantages of VUV – Soft X-ray radiation selective single photon ionization/excitation weak fields perturbation of molecular orbitals avoided
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Light Sources Ulrike Frühling Bad Honnef 2014
Wave length range VUV - Soft X-Ray 200nm - 0.1nm 6 eV – 1.2 keV
Wave length range • Advantages of VUV – Soft X-ray radiation • selective single photon ionization/excitation • weak fields perturbation of molecular orbitals avoided • access to deeply bound electron shells • high photo-absorption cross section • high temporal resolution
Relevant time scales Pulse duration needs to be short compared to the studied dynamics. short pulse sharp long pulse blured
Pump Probe experiment Detector Pump pulse Dt Sample Variable delay Probe pulse M. Drescher Z. Phys. Chem. 218, 1147-1168 (2004). We need two short, well synchronized light pulses
Brilliance Brilliance: Photons / (sec·mrad2·mm2·0.1%bw) •Peak brightness: within a pulse •Often used to compare light sources, but need to consider the requirements of specific experiments. • Can take data over many pulses? average brightness •Nonlinear experiments, or experiments where the target is destroyed by each pulse “peak” brilliance HHG
Synchrotron radiaton ESRF
Synchrotron radiaton Petra III Undulator • Sinusoidal electron trajectory in the undulator • Emission of Radiation at every bend • Coherent superposition of light pulses emitted at consecutive bends leads to highly brilliant beam • Wavelength tunable by changing the undulator gap
Synchrotron radiaton Synchrotron radiaton sources • Photonenergy: VUV to hard X-Rays (few eV to 100 keV) • High repetition rate (MHz) • Tuneable wavelenght, good spectral resolution (with monochromator) • Pulseduration: tens to >100 ps
fs Synchrotron Pulses - Slicing • Superimpose ps electron bunch with fs laser pulse to modulate the electron energy. • Use only the modulated electrons for synchrotron radiation S. Kahn et al., PRL 97, 074801 (2006).
fs Synchrotron Pulses - Slicing S. Kahn et al., PRL 97, 074801 (2006).
fs Synchrotron Pulses - Slicing Energy modulation Intensity is reduced by 10-4 Pulse duration: 100 fs Photon energy: 300 – 1400 eV Sources available at Bessy, PSI S. Kahn et al., PRL 97, 074801 (2006).
Free-electron laser • Free-electron laser • >106 higher irradiance than synchrotrons • XUV: Emax ~ 1016Wcm-2 (FLASH) • X-ray: Emax ~ 1018Wcm-2 (LCLS) • Sources for multi-photon processes in the XUV/X-ray range • fs pulse duration • Time resolved experiments • Repetition rate: few Hz to kHz
FEL Experiments Photoeffect at ultra high intensities l = 13.3 nm (93 eV) focus: 2.6 mm (f =200 mm) E = 1012 – 10 16 W cm-2 Xe21+57 photons A.A Sorokin et al., PRL 99, 213002 (2007).
VUV/Soft X-ray FELs SPring-8 SCSS-TA l > 40 nm SACLA l > 0.1 nm • Proposed facilities and facilities under construction not listed SLAC LCLS l > 0.12 nm DESY FLASH l > 7 nm Elettra FERMI l > 40 nm
Free-electron laser Linear accelerator highly compressed, well defined electron bunch Long undulator several 10 m)
Free-electron laser SASE-self amplified spontaneous emission Spontaneous undulator emission
Free-electron laser SASE-self amplified spontaneous emission Energy modulation of electrons in the copropagating light field
Free-electron laser SASE-self amplified spontaneous emission Energy modulation leads to increasing density modulation of the electron bunch (microbunching) Bunch period: l coherent emission P Ne2
SASE FEL properties SASE-self amplified spontaneous emission No oscillator fluctuation of spectrum, pulse shape, pulse-energy Solution: single shot measurement of all beam parameters + sorting of experimental data
SASE FEL properties SASE-self amplified spontaneous emission No oscillator fluctuation of spectrum, pulse shape, pulse-energy Solution: single shot measurement of all beam parameters + sorting of experimental data FLASH Pulse energy FLASH single shot spectra Average FWHM-width: 1,7%
SASE FEL properties SASE-self amplified spontaneous emission No oscillator fluctuation of spectrum, pulse shape, pulse-energy Solution: single shot measurement of all beam parameters + sorting of experimental data l = 13.7 nm FLASH Pulse shape (simulated) FLASH pulse duration Average FWHM-duration: 35 fs
Synchronization Single shot time delay measurement Intense XUV radiation changes reflectivity for optical laser 200 µm GaAs FLASH: 28 nm, 25 fs Optical laser: 400 nm, 130 fs CCD
Delayscan over temporal window of 2.3 ps 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.7 1.8 2.2 2.3 Nominal delay stage setting (ps) T. Maltezopoulos et al., New Journ. Phys. 10, 033026 (2008). t (ps) Alternative methods: Electro-optical sampling Sidebands
sorted with timing experiment Jitter-compensated ion signal delay scan Red curve – expected results with nominal XUV and laser parameters
FEL Seeding schemes Direct seeded FEL (amplifier mode) e.g. High-Harmonic Generation (HHG) Low seed power Difficult Synchronization Wavelength record: 38 nm (FLASH) High-gain harmonic generation (HGHG) HGHG-cascade Wavelength record: 4 nm (FERMI) Wavelength record: 20 nm (FERMI)
FEL Seeding schemes Self-Seeding SASE • no external seed difficulties • no direct control over pulse length, chirp, synchronization, etc… Wavelength record: 0.12 nm (LCLS) Most seeding projects are still experimental User operation only at Fermi (20-65 nm)
High-harmonic generation Spherical mirror fs nir-laser atomic gas target
High-harmonic generation “Three-step model” Kheldysh et.al. Gas atom “Femtosecond x-ray science”, T. Pfeifer, C. Spielmann and G. Gerber, Rep. Prog. Phys. 69 (2006) 443–505
High-harmonic generation HHG-Spectrum • Ecutoff= Ip+3Up Up = e2E02/(4mew2)~ Il2 • Pulse-duration is determined by the driving laser (fs to as). • Pulse energy: mJ (VUV) nJ (<100 nm) • Perfect XUV/laser synchronization • Laser like XUV pulses
Laser: 800 nm, 25 fs, 2 mJ/pulse XUV: 13.5 nm (higher harmonics generation) HHG setup B. Schütte PhD-Thesis (2012)
Generation of as-pulses Carrier envelope phase (CEP) A. Baltuska et al., Nature 421, 611 (2003).
Light field driven streak-camera Electron energy detector IR light field XUV pulse Electrons Atoms IXUV(t) Ie(p) Ie(E) resolution: < 100 as R. Kienberger et al., Nature 427, 817 (2004).
Light field driven streak-camera Dp(t) = e A(t) Electron energy detector IR light field electron momentum change XUV pulse Electrons el. field strength / vector potential A Atoms electron-momentum distribution I(Ekin) time XUV wave packet |Y(t)|2 R. Kienberger et al., Nature 427, 817 (2004).
Streaking with visible light E. Goulielmakis et al., Science 305, 1267 (2004). Kienberger et al., Nature 427, 817 – 821 (2004).