scholarly journals Single Shot Coherence Properties of the Free-Electron Laser SACLA in the Hard X-ray Regime

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Felix Lehmkühler ◽  
Christian Gutt ◽  
Birgit Fischer ◽  
Martin A. Schroer ◽  
Marcin Sikorski ◽  
...  
2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Felix Lehmkühler ◽  
Christian Gutt ◽  
Birgit Fischer ◽  
Martin A. Schroer ◽  
Marcin Sikorski ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian David ◽  
Gediminas Seniutinas ◽  
Mikako Makita ◽  
Benedikt Rösner ◽  
Jens Rehanek ◽  
...  

The performance and parameters of the online photon single-shot spectrometer (PSSS) at the Aramis beamline of the SwissFEL free-electron laser are presented. The device operates between the photon energies 4 and 13 keV and uses diamond transmission gratings and bent Si crystals for spectral measurements on the first diffraction order of the beam. The device has an energy window of 0.7% of the median photon energy of the free-electron laser pulses and a spectral resolution (full width at half-maximum) ΔE/E on the order of 10−5. The device was characterized by comparing its performance with reference data from synchrotron sources, and a parametric study investigated other effects that could affect the reliability of the spectral information.


2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shigeki Owada ◽  
Kyo Nakajima ◽  
Tadashi Togashi ◽  
Tetsuo Kayatama ◽  
Makina Yabashi

Arrival timing diagnostics performed at a soft X-ray free-electron laser (FEL) beamline of SACLA are described. Intense soft X-ray FEL pulses with one-dimensional focusing efficiently induce transient changes of optical reflectivity on the surface of GaAs. The arrival timing between soft X-ray FEL and optical laser pulses was successfully measured as a spatial position of the reflectivity change. The temporal resolution evaluated from the imaging system reaches ∼10 fs. This method requires only a small portion of the incident pulse energy, which enables the simultaneous operation of the arrival timing diagnostics and experiments by introducing a wavefront-splitting scheme.


2011 ◽  
Vol 82 (2) ◽  
pp. 023108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kensuke Tono ◽  
Togo Kudo ◽  
Makina Yabashi ◽  
Takeshi Tachibana ◽  
Yiping Feng ◽  
...  

Cytoskeleton ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 74 (12) ◽  
pp. 472-481 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Popp ◽  
N. Duane Loh ◽  
Habiba Zorgati ◽  
Umesh Ghoshdastider ◽  
Lu Ting Liow ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Siegfried Schreiber ◽  
Bart Faatz

FLASH at DESY, Hamburg, Germany is the first free-electron laser (FEL) operating in the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) and soft x-ray wavelength range. FLASH is a user facility providing femtosecond short pulses with an unprecedented peak and average brilliance, opening new scientific opportunities in many disciplines. The first call for user experiments has been launched in 2005. The FLASH linear accelerator is based on TESLA superconducting technology, providing several thousands of photon pulses per second to user experiments. Probing femtosecond-scale dynamics in atomic and molecular reactions using, for instance, a combination of x-ray and optical pulses in a pump and probe arrangement, as well as single-shot diffraction imaging of biological objects and molecules, are typical experiments performed at the facility. We give an overview of the FLASH facility, and describe the basic principles of the accelerator. Recently, FLASH has been extended by a second undulator beamline (FLASH2) operated in parallel to the first beamline, extending the capacity of the facility by a factor of two.


2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 600-612 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuki Sekiguchi ◽  
Tomotaka Oroguchi ◽  
Yuki Takayama ◽  
Masayoshi Nakasako

Coherent X-ray diffraction imaging is a promising technique for visualizing the structures of non-crystalline particles with dimensions of micrometers to sub-micrometers. Recently, X-ray free-electron laser sources have enabled efficient experiments in the `diffraction before destruction' scheme. Diffraction experiments have been conducted at SPring-8 Angstrom Compact free-electron LAser (SACLA) using the custom-made diffraction apparatus KOTOBUKI-1 and two multiport CCD detectors. In the experiments, ten thousands of single-shot diffraction patterns can be collected within several hours. Then, diffraction patterns with significant levels of intensity suitable for structural analysis must be found, direct-beam positions in diffraction patterns determined, diffraction patterns from the two CCD detectors merged, and phase-retrieval calculations for structural analyses performed. A software suite namedSITENNOhas been developed to semi-automatically apply the four-step processing to a huge number of diffraction data. Here, details of the algorithm used in the suite are described and the performance for approximately 9000 diffraction patterns collected from cuboid-shaped copper oxide particles reported. Using theSITENNOsuite, it is possible to conduct experiments with data processing immediately after the data collection, and to characterize the size distribution and internal structures of the non-crystalline particles.


2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Schneider ◽  
Christian M. Günther ◽  
Bastian Pfau ◽  
Flavio Capotondi ◽  
Michele Manfredda ◽  
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