Author: Wang, A.L.
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TUPOPT044 High-Power Attosecond Pulses via Cascaded Amplification 1101
 
  • P.L. Franz, Z.H. Guo, S. Li, R. Robles
    Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
  • D.K. Bohler, D.B. Cesar, X. Cheng, J.P. Cryan, T.D.C. Driver, J.P. Duris, A. Kamalov, S. Li, A. Marinelli, R. Obaid, R. Robles, N.S. Sudar, A.L. Wang, Z. Zhang
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
 
  Funding: This work was supported by US Department of Energy Contracts No. DE-AC02-76SF00.
The timescale for electron motion in molecular systems is on the order of hundreds of attoseconds, and thus the time-resolved study of electronic dynamics requires a source of sub-femtosecond x-ray pulses. Here we report the experimental generation of sub-femtosecond duration soft x-ray free electron laser (XFEL) pulses with hundreds of microjoules of energy using fresh-slice amplification in two cascaded stages at the Linac Coherent Light Source. In the first stage, an enhanced self-amplified spontaneous emission (ESASE) pulse is generated using laser-shaping of the electron beam at the photocathode*. The electron bunch is then delayed relative to the pulse by a magnetic chicane, allowing the radiation to slip onto a fresh slice of the bunch, which amplifies the ESASE pulse in the second cascade stage. Angular streaking** characterizes the experimental pulse durations as sub-femtosecond at ~465 eV in the experiment.
* Zhang, Z. et al. New J. Phys. 22 (2020)
** Li, S. et al. Optics Express 26.4 (2018): 4531-4547.
 
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-TUPOPT044  
About • Received ※ 08 June 2022 — Revised ※ 15 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 16 June 2022 — Issue date ※ 21 June 2022
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