Enabling time-resolved experiments with ultrashort FEL pulses via the split-and-delay unit for FLASH2

M. Dreimann; D. Eckermann; S. Roling; T. Reiker; F. Rosenthal; F. Wahlert; M. Kuhlmann; S. Toleikis; R. Treusch; E. Plönjes; H. Zacharias

Research article in digital collection (conference) | Peer reviewed

Abstract

We present the temporal characteristics of the split-and-delay unit at FLASH2 via visibility measurements which characterize the temporal resolution of the combined system of the FEL and the split-and-delay unit. The use of the split-and-delay unit at FLASH2 allows the users at the beamlines FL23 and FL24 at DESY to perform such pump-probe experiments. By using wavefront beam splitting, grazing incidence mirrors, and two different coatings the whole spectral region of FLASH2 is covered, and even harmonics up to 1800 eV are transmitted with a transmission of T>0.06. It is concluded that user experiments with a pump-probe scheme from the picosecond regime down into the sub-femtosecond region can be carried out.

Details about the publication

Name of the repositoryProceedings Volume 12581, X-Ray Free-Electron Lasers: Advances in Source Development and Instrumentation VI
Article number 125810P
Version2023
StatusPublished
Release year2022
Language in which the publication is writtenEnglish
ConferenceX-Ray Free-Electron Lasers: Advances in Source Development and Instrumentation VI, Prague, Czech Republic
DOI10.1117/12.2665626
Link to the full texthttps://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/12581/2665626/Enabling-time-resolved-experiments-with-ultrashort-FEL-pulses-via-the/10.1117/12.2665626.short
KeywordsXUV; soft x-ray; pump-probe; time-resolved; free-electron laser; non-linear light-matter interaction; ultrashort pulses

Authors from the University of Münster

Dreimann, Matthias
Center for Soft Nanoscience
Eckermann, Dennis
Institute of Physics (PI)
Reiker, Tobias
Center for Soft Nanoscience
Roling, Sebastian
Institute of Physics (PI)
Rosenthal, Felix
Institute of Physics (PI)
Wahlert, Frank
Institute of Physics (PI)
Zacharias, Helmut
Center for Soft Nanoscience