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Bergmann U. Stimulated X-ray emission spectroscopy. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 2024:10.1007/s11120-024-01080-y. [PMID: 38619702 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-024-01080-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2023] [Accepted: 01/24/2024] [Indexed: 04/16/2024]
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We describe an emerging hard X-ray spectroscopy technique, stimulated X-ray emission spectroscopy (S-XES). S-XES has the potential to characterize the electronic structure of 3d transition metal complexes with spectral information currently not reachable and might lead to the development of new ultrafast X-ray sources with properties beyond the state of the art. S-XES has become possible with the emergence of X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) that provide intense femtosecond X-ray pulses that can be employed to generate a population inversion of core-hole excited states resulting in stimulated X-ray emission. We describe the instrumentation, the various types of S-XES, the potential applications, the experimental challenges, and the feasibility of applying S-XES to characterize dilute systems, including the Mn4Ca cluster in the oxygen evolving complex of photosystem II.
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- Uwe Bergmann
- Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
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Welke N, Majernik N, Ash R, Moro A, Agustsson R, Manwani P, Li K, Sakdinawat A, Aquila A, Benediktovitch A, Halavanau A, Rosenzweig J, Bergmann U, Pellegrini C. Development of spinning-disk solid sample delivery system for high-repetition rate x-ray free electron laser experiments. THE REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS 2023; 94:103005. [PMID: 37801013 DOI: 10.1063/5.0168125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2023] [Accepted: 09/12/2023] [Indexed: 10/07/2023]
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X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) deliver intense x-ray pulses that destroy the sample in a single shot by a Coulomb explosion. Experiments using XFEL pulse trains or the new generation of high-repetition rate XFELs require rapid sample replacement beyond those provided by the systems now used at low repletion-rate XFELs. We describe the development and characterization of a system based on a spinning disk to continuously deliver a solid sample into an XFEL interaction point at very high speeds. We tested our system at the Linac Coherent Light Source and European XFEL hard x-ray nano-focus instruments, employing it to deliver a 25 μm copper foil sample, which can be used as a gain medium for stimulated x-ray emission for the proposed x-ray laser oscillator.
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- N Welke
- Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- RadiaBeam Technologies, Santa Monica, California 90404, USA
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- RadiaBeam Technologies, Santa Monica, California 90404, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Center for Free-Electron Laser Science CFEL, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestr. 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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Heo J, Kim Y, Yun G, Kim DE. Gain dynamics of inner-shell vacancy states pumped by high-intensity XFEL in Mg, Al and Si. OPTICS EXPRESS 2023; 31:26948-26957. [PMID: 37710543 DOI: 10.1364/oe.495095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2023] [Accepted: 07/17/2023] [Indexed: 09/16/2023]
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High-intensity X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) beams create transient and non-equilibrium dense states of matter in solid-density targets. These states can be used to develop atomic X-ray lasers with narrow bandwidth and excellent longitudinal coherence, which is not possible with current XFEL pulses. An atomic kinetics model is used to simulate the population dynamics of atomic inner-shell vacancy states in Mg, Al, and Si, revealing the feasibility of population inversion between K-shell and L-shell vacancy states. We also discuss the gain characteristics of these states implying the possibility of atomic X-ray lasers based on inner-shell vacancy states in the 1.5 keV region. The development of atomic X-ray lasers could have applications in high-resolution spectroscopy and nonlinear optics in the X-ray region.
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Doyle MD, Halavanau A, Zhang Y, Michine Y, Everts J, Fuller F, Alonso-Mori R, Yabashi M, Inoue IC, Osaka T, Yamada J, Inubushi Y, Hara T, Kern J, Yano J, Yachandra VK, Rohringer N, Yoneda H, Kroll T, Pellegrini C, Bergmann U. Seeded stimulated X-ray emission at 5.9 keV. OPTICA 2023; 10:513-519. [PMID: 38239819 PMCID: PMC10795508 DOI: 10.1364/optica.485989] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2023] [Accepted: 03/27/2023] [Indexed: 01/22/2024]
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X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) provide intense pulses that can generate stimulated X-ray emission, a phenomenon that has been observed and studied in materials ranging from neon to copper. Two schemes have been employed: amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) and seeded stimulated emission (SSE), where a second color XFEL pulse provides the seed. Both phenomena are currently explored for coherent X-ray laser sources and spectroscopy. Here, we report measurements of ASE and SSE of the 5.9 keV Mn Kα1 fluorescence line from a 3.9 molar NaMnO4 solution, pumped with 7 femtosecond FWHM XFEL pulses at 6.6 keV. We observed ASE at a pump pulse intensity of 1.7 × 1019 W/cm2, consistent with earlier findings. We observed SSE at dramatically reduced pump pulse intensities down to 1.1 × 1017 W/cm2. These intensities are well within the range of many existing XFEL instruments, which supports the experimental feasibility of SSE as a tool to generate coherent X-ray pulses, spectroscopic studies of transition metal complexes, and other applications.
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- Margaret D. Doyle
- Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Accelerator Research Division, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Stanford PULSE Institute, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Institute for Laser Science, The University of Electro-Communications, Chofu, Tokyo 182-8585, Japan
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- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 9402, USA
- Department of Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- Linac Coherent Light Source, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Linac Coherent Light Source, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Sayo-cho, Sayo-gun, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan
- Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, Sayo-cho, Sayo-gun, Hyogo 679-5198, Japan
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- RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Sayo-cho, Sayo-gun, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan
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- RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Sayo-cho, Sayo-gun, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan
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- RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Sayo-cho, Sayo-gun, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan
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- RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Sayo-cho, Sayo-gun, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan
- Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, Sayo-cho, Sayo-gun, Hyogo 679-5198, Japan
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- RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Sayo-cho, Sayo-gun, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan
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- Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Center for Free-Electron Laser Science CFEL, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg 22607, Germany
- Department of Physics, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg 20355, Germany
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- Institute for Laser Science, The University of Electro-Communications, Chofu, Tokyo 182-8585, Japan
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- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 9402, USA
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- Accelerator Research Division, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Stanford PULSE Institute, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
- Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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Halavanau A, Margraf R, Robles R, MacArthur J, Qu Z, Marcus G, Wu J, Sato T, Zhu D, Takacs CJ, Arthur R, Kraynis O, Johnson B, Rabedeau T. Experimental setup for high-resolution characterization of crystal optics for coherent X-ray beam applications. J Appl Crystallogr 2023; 56:155-159. [PMID: 36777134 PMCID: PMC9901917 DOI: 10.1107/s1600576722010998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2022] [Accepted: 11/16/2022] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource serves a wide scientific community with its variety of X-ray capabilities. Recently, a wiggler X-ray source located at beamline 10-2 has been employed to perform high-resolution rocking curve imaging (RCI) of diamond and silicon crystals. X-ray RCI is invaluable for the development of upcoming cavity-based X-ray sources at SLAC, including the cavity-based X-ray free-electron laser and X-ray laser oscillator. In this paper, the RCI apparatus is described and experimental results are provided to validate its design. Future improvements of the setup are also discussed.
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- Aliaksei Halavanau
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA,Correspondence e-mail:
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA,Stanford University, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA,Stanford University, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
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Arias-Martinez JE, Cunha LA, Oosterbaan KJ, Lee J, Head-Gordon M. Accurate core excitation and ionization energies from a state-specific coupled-cluster singles and doubles approach. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:20728-20741. [PMID: 36004629 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp01998a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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We investigate the use of orbital-optimized references in conjunction with single-reference coupled-cluster theory with single and double substitutions (CCSD) for the study of core excitations and ionizations of 18 small organic molecules, without the use of response theory or equation-of-motion (EOM) formalisms. Three schemes are employed to successfully address the convergence difficulties associated with the coupled-cluster equations, and the spin contamination resulting from the use of a spin symmetry-broken reference, in the case of excitations. In order to gauge the inherent potential of the methods studied, an effort is made to provide reasonable basis set limit estimates for the transition energies. Overall, we find that the two best-performing schemes studied here for ΔCCSD are capable of predicting excitation and ionization energies with errors comparable to experimental accuracies. The proposed ΔCCSD schemes reduces statistical errors against experimental excitation energies by more than a factor of two when compared to the frozen-core core-valence separated (FC-CVS) EOM-CCSD approach - a successful variant of EOM-CCSD tailored towards core excitations.
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- Juan E Arias-Martinez
- Kenneth S. Pitzer Center for Theoretical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA. .,Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Kenneth S. Pitzer Center for Theoretical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA. .,Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Kenneth S. Pitzer Center for Theoretical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York 10027, USA
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- Kenneth S. Pitzer Center for Theoretical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA. .,Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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Descamps A, Ofori-Okai BK, Baldwin JK, Chen Z, Fletcher LB, Glenzer SH, Hartley NJ, Hasting JB, Khaghani D, Mo M, Nagler B, Recoules V, Redmer R, Schörner M, Sun P, Wang YQ, White TG, McBride EE. Towards performing high-resolution inelastic X-ray scattering measurements at hard X-ray free-electron lasers coupled with energetic laser drivers. JOURNAL OF SYNCHROTRON RADIATION 2022; 29:931-938. [PMID: 35787558 PMCID: PMC9255572 DOI: 10.1107/s1600577522004453] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2022] [Accepted: 04/26/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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High-resolution inelastic X-ray scattering is an established technique in the synchrotron community, used to investigate collective low-frequency responses of materials. When fielded at hard X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) and combined with high-intensity laser drivers, it becomes a promising technique for investigating matter at high temperatures and high pressures. This technique gives access to important thermodynamic properties of matter at extreme conditions, such as temperature, material sound speed, and viscosity. The successful realization of this method requires the acquisition of many identical laser-pump/X-ray-probe shots, allowing the collection of a sufficient number of photons necessary to perform quantitative analyses. Here, a 2.5-fold improvement in the energy resolution of the instrument relative to previous works at the Matter in Extreme Conditions (MEC) endstation, Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), and the High Energy Density (HED) instrument, European XFEL, is presented. Some aspects of the experimental design that are essential for improving the number of photons detected in each X-ray shot, making such measurements feasible, are discussed. A careful choice of the energy resolution, the X-ray beam mode provided by the XFEL, and the position of the analysers used in such experiments can provide a more than ten-fold improvement in the photometrics. The discussion is supported by experimental data on 10 µm-thick iron and 50 nm-thick gold samples collected at the MEC endstation at the LCLS, and by complementary ray-tracing simulations coupled with thermal diffuse scattering calculations.
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- A. Descamps
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
- Aeronautics and Astronautics Department, Stanford University, 450 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
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- Los Alamos National Laboratory, Bikini Atoll Road, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
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- CEA/DAM DIF, F-91297 Arpajon Cedex, France
- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, Laboratoire Matière en Conditions Extrêmes, 91680 Bruyères-le-Châtel, France
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- Institut für Physik, Universität Rostock, Albert-Einstein-Straße 23, 18059 Rostock, Germany
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- Institut für Physik, Universität Rostock, Albert-Einstein-Straße 23, 18059 Rostock, Germany
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
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- Los Alamos National Laboratory, Bikini Atoll Road, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
- PULSE Institute, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
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Zhang Y, Kroll T, Weninger C, Michine Y, Fuller FD, Zhu D, Alonso-Mori R, Sokaras D, Lutman AA, Halavanau A, Pellegrini C, Benediktovitch A, Yabashi M, Inoue I, Inubushi Y, Osaka T, Yamada J, Babu G, Salpekar D, Sayed FN, Ajayan PM, Kern J, Yano J, Yachandra VK, Yoneda H, Rohringer N, Bergmann U. Generation of intense phase-stable femtosecond hard X-ray pulse pairs. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2022; 119:e2119616119. [PMID: 35290124 PMCID: PMC8944280 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2119616119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2021] [Accepted: 02/02/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
Abstract
Coherent nonlinear spectroscopies and imaging in the X-ray domain provide direct insight into the coupled motions of electrons and nuclei with resolution on the electronic length scale and timescale. The experimental realization of such techniques will strongly benefit from access to intense, coherent pairs of femtosecond X-ray pulses. We have observed phase-stable X-ray pulse pairs containing more than 3 × 107 photons at 5.9 keV (2.1 Å) with ∼1 fs duration and 2 to 5 fs separation. The highly directional pulse pairs are manifested by interference fringes in the superfluorescent and seeded stimulated manganese Kα emission induced by an X-ray free-electron laser. The fringes constitute the time-frequency X-ray analog of Young’s double-slit interference, allowing for frequency domain X-ray measurements with attosecond time resolution.
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- Yu Zhang
- Stanford PULSE Institute, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025
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- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025
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- Linac Coherent Light Source, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025
- MAX IV Laboratory, Lund University, Lund 224 84, Sweden
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- Institute for Laser Science, The University of Electro-Communications, Chofu,Tokyo 182-8585, Japan
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- Linac Coherent Light Source, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025
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- Linac Coherent Light Source, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025
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- Linac Coherent Light Source, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025
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- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025
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- Linac & FEL Division, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025
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- Accelerator Research Division, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025
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- Accelerator Research Division, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025
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- Center for Free-Electron Laser Science CFEL, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg 22607, Germany
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- RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Sayo-cho, Sayo-gun, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan
- Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, Sayo-cho, Sayo-gun, Hyogo 679-5198, Japan
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- RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Sayo-cho, Sayo-gun, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan
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- RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Sayo-cho, Sayo-gun, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan
- Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, Sayo-cho, Sayo-gun, Hyogo 679-5198, Japan
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- RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Sayo-cho, Sayo-gun, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan
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- RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Sayo-cho, Sayo-gun, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan
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- Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005
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- Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005
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- Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005
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- Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005
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- Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720
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- Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720
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- Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720
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- Institute for Laser Science, The University of Electro-Communications, Chofu,Tokyo 182-8585, Japan
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- Center for Free-Electron Laser Science CFEL, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg 22607, Germany
- Department of Physics, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg 20355, Germany
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- Stanford PULSE Institute, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025
- Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI 53706
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Tunable x-ray free electron laser multi-pulses with nanosecond separation. Sci Rep 2022; 12:3253. [PMID: 35228548 PMCID: PMC8885633 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-06754-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2021] [Accepted: 02/02/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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X-ray Free Electron Lasers provide femtosecond x-ray pulses with narrow bandwidth and unprecedented peak brightness. Special modes of operation have been developed to deliver double pulses for x-ray pump, x-ray probe experiments. However, the longest delay between the two pulses achieved with existing single bucket methods is less than 1 picosecond, thus preventing the exploration of longer time-scale dynamics. We present a novel two-bucket scheme covering delays from 350 picoseconds to hundreds of nanoseconds in discrete steps of 350 picoseconds. Performance for each pulse can be similar to the one in a single pulse operation. The method has been experimentally tested with the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS-I) and the copper linac with LCLS-II hard x-ray undulators.
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Huang N, Deng H, Liu B, Wang D, Zhao Z. Features and futures of X-ray free-electron lasers. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2021; 2:100097. [PMID: 34557749 PMCID: PMC8454599 DOI: 10.1016/j.xinn.2021.100097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2020] [Accepted: 03/14/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Linear accelerator-based free-electron lasers (FELs) are the leading source of fully coherent X-rays with ultra-high peak powers and ultra-short pulse lengths. Current X-ray FEL facilities have proved their worth as useful tools for diverse scientific applications. In this paper, we present an overview of the features and future prospects of X-ray FELs, including the working principles and properties of X-ray FELs, the operational status of different FEL facilities worldwide, the applications supported by such facilities, and the current developments and outlook for X-ray FEL-based research. X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) generate X-ray by electrons flying through a periodic magnetic field. XFELs are the leading X-ray sources with ultra-high brightness and ultra-short duration. XFELs can be launched from either the shot noise of the electron beam or the seed. XFEL-laser collision is proposed to learn the nature of vacuum at SHINE. XFELs are being combined with intense lasers and synchrotron radiation light sources.
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- Nanshun Huang
- Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
- Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201210, China
- Corresponding author
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- Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
- Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201210, China
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- Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
- Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201210, China
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- Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
- Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201210, China
- Corresponding author
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Inoue I, Deguchi Y, Ziaja B, Osaka T, Abdullah MM, Jurek Z, Medvedev N, Tkachenko V, Inubushi Y, Kasai H, Tamasaku K, Hara T, Nishibori E, Yabashi M. Atomic-Scale Visualization of Ultrafast Bond Breaking in X-Ray-Excited Diamond. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2021; 126:117403. [PMID: 33798368 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.126.117403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2020] [Revised: 12/09/2020] [Accepted: 01/23/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
Abstract
Ultrafast changes of charge density distribution in diamond after irradiation with an intense x-ray pulse (photon energy, 7.8 keV; pulse duration, 6 fs; intensity, 3×10^{19} W/cm^{2}) have been visualized with the x-ray pump-x-ray probe technique. The measurement reveals that covalent bonds in diamond are broken and the electron distribution around each atom becomes almost isotropic within ∼5 fs after the intensity maximum of the x-ray pump pulse. The 15 fs time delay observed between the bond breaking and atomic disordering indicates nonisothermality of electron and lattice subsystems on this timescale. From these observations and simulation results, we interpret that the x-ray-induced change of the interatomic potential drives the ultrafast atomic disordering underway to the following nonthermal melting.
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- Ichiro Inoue
- RIKEN SPring-8 Center, 1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan
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- Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan
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- Center of Free-Electron Laser Science, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Notkestraße 85, 22607, Germany
- Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Radzikowskiego 152, 31-342 Krakow, Poland
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- RIKEN SPring-8 Center, 1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan
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- Center of Free-Electron Laser Science, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Notkestraße 85, 22607, Germany
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- Center of Free-Electron Laser Science, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Notkestraße 85, 22607, Germany
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- Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Na Slovance 2, Prague 8, 18221, Czech Republic
- Institute of Plasma Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Za Slovankou 3, 182 00 Prague 8, Czech Republic
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- Center of Free-Electron Laser Science, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Notkestraße 85, 22607, Germany
- Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Radzikowskiego 152, 31-342 Krakow, Poland
- European XFEL GmbH, Holzkoppel 4, 22869 Schenefeld, Germany
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- RIKEN SPring-8 Center, 1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan
- Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, Kouto 1-1-1, Sayo, Hyogo 679-5198, Japan
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- Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan
- Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences and Tsukuba Research Center for Energy Materials Science, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan
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- RIKEN SPring-8 Center, 1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan
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- RIKEN SPring-8 Center, 1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan
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- Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan
- Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences and Tsukuba Research Center for Energy Materials Science, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan
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- RIKEN SPring-8 Center, 1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan
- Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, Kouto 1-1-1, Sayo, Hyogo 679-5198, Japan
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Zhu H, Huang Y, Ren J, Zhang B, Ke Y, Jen AK, Zhang Q, Wang X, Liu Q. Bridging Structural Inhomogeneity to Functionality: Pair Distribution Function Methods for Functional Materials Development. ADVANCED SCIENCE (WEINHEIM, BADEN-WURTTEMBERG, GERMANY) 2021; 8:2003534. [PMID: 33747741 PMCID: PMC7967088 DOI: 10.1002/advs.202003534] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2020] [Revised: 10/22/2020] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
Abstract
The correlation between structure and function lies at the heart of materials science and engineering. Especially, modern functional materials usually contain inhomogeneities at an atomic level, endowing them with interesting properties regarding electrons, phonons, and magnetic moments. Over the past few decades, many of the key developments in functional materials have been driven by the rapid advances in short-range crystallographic techniques. Among them, pair distribution function (PDF) technique, capable of utilizing the entire Bragg and diffuse scattering signals, stands out as a powerful tool for detecting local structure away from average. With the advent of synchrotron X-rays, spallation neutrons, and advanced computing power, the PDF can quantitatively encode a local structure and in turn guide atomic-scale engineering in the functional materials. Here, the PDF investigations in a range of functional materials are reviewed, including ferroelectrics/thermoelectrics, colossal magnetoresistance (CMR) magnets, high-temperature superconductors (HTSC), quantum dots (QDs), nano-catalysts, and energy storage materials, where the links between functions and structural inhomogeneities are prominent. For each application, a brief description of the structure-function coupling will be given, followed by selected cases of PDF investigations. Before that, an overview of the theory, methodology, and unique power of the PDF method will be also presented.
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- He Zhu
- Department of PhysicsCity University of Hong KongHong Kong999077P. R. China
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- Department of PhysicsCity University of Hong KongHong Kong999077P. R. China
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- Department of PhysicsCity University of Hong KongHong Kong999077P. R. China
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- Department of PhysicsCity University of Hong KongHong Kong999077P. R. China
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- China Spallation Neutron SourceInstitute of High Energy PhysicsChinese Academy of ScienceDongguan523000P. R. China
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- Department of Materials Science and EngineeringCity University of Hong KongHong Kong999077P. R. China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Reaction Engineering and TechnologyDepartment of Chemical EngineeringTsinghua UniversityBeijing100084P. R. China
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- Department of PhysicsCity University of Hong KongHong Kong999077P. R. China
- Shenzhen Research InstituteCity University of Hong KongShenzhen518057P. R. China
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- Department of PhysicsCity University of Hong KongHong Kong999077P. R. China
- Shenzhen Research InstituteCity University of Hong KongShenzhen518057P. R. China
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Vassholz M, Salditt T. Observation of electron-induced characteristic x-ray and bremsstrahlung radiation from a waveguide cavity. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2021; 7:eabd5677. [PMID: 33523944 PMCID: PMC10671168 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abd5677] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2020] [Accepted: 12/04/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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We demonstrate x-ray generation based on direct emission of spontaneous x-rays into waveguide modes. Photons are generated by electron impact onto a structured anode target, which is formed as an x-ray waveguide or waveguide array. Both emission of characteristic radiation and bremsstrahlung are affected by the changes in mode density induced by the waveguide structure. We investigate how the excited modal pattern depends on the positions of the metal atoms and the distance of the focused electron beam with respect to the waveguide exit side. We compare the results to synchrotron-excited fluorescence. We then discuss how x-ray generation in waveguides can be used to increase the brilliance and directional emission of tabletop x-ray sources, with a corresponding increase in the spatial coherence. On the basis of the Purcell effect, we lastly show that the gain of emission into waveguide modes is governed by the quality factor of the waveguide.
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- Malte Vassholz
- Institut für Röntgenphysik, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1, Göttingen, Germany
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- Institut für Röntgenphysik, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1, Göttingen, Germany.
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