Double-pulse speckle contrast correlations with near Fourier transform limited free-electron laser light using hard X-ray split-and-delay

Autor: Wojciech Roseker, Sooheyong Lee, Michael Walther, Felix Lehmkühler, Birgit Hankiewicz, Rustam Rysov, Stephan O. Hruszkewycz, G. Brian Stephenson, Mark Sutton, Paul H. Fuoss, Marcin Sikorski, Aymeric Robert, Sanghoon Song, Gerhard Grübel
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Scientific Reports, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2045-2322
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-61926-y
Popis: Abstract The ability to deliver two coherent X-ray pulses with precise time-delays ranging from a few femtoseconds to nanoseconds enables critical capabilities of probing ultra-fast phenomena in condensed matter systems at X-ray free electron laser (FEL) sources. Recent progress made in the hard X-ray split-and-delay optics developments now brings a very promising prospect for resolving atomic-scale motions that were not accessible by previous time-resolved techniques. Here, we report on characterizing the spatial and temporal coherence properties of the hard X-ray FEL beam after propagating through split-and-delay optics. Speckle contrast analysis of small-angle scattering measurements from nanoparticles reveals well-preserved transverse coherence of the beam. Measuring intensity fluctuations from successive X-ray pulses also reveals that only single or double temporal modes remain in the transmitted beam, corresponding to nearly Fourier transform limited pulses.
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