Speaker
Description
We report the generation of single spike hard x-ray pulses at the Linac Coherent Light Source enabled by temporal shaping of the photocathode laser. The pulses were produced with typical pulse energies of 10 uJ and full-width at half-maximum spectral bandwidths averaging 30 eV, corresponding to a 60 attosecond Fourier-limited pulse duration. These pulses open new doors in electronic-damage-free probing of ultrafast phenomena and, eventually, attosecond hard x-ray scattering experiments. We discuss future plans to characterize the pulse in the time domain using hard x-ray angular streaking and a hard x-ray split and delay device.
Funding Agency
U.S. DOE, Office of Science, Office of BES under Contract No. DE-AC02-76SF00515
U.S. DOE, Office of Science, Office of BES Accelerator and Detector Research Program
| Region represented | America |
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| Paper preparation format | LaTeX |
