Download or read book Methods of Attosecond X Ray Pulse Generation written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We review several proposals for generation of solitary attosecond pulses using two types of free electron lasers which are envisioned as future light sources for studies of ultra-fast dynamics using soft and hard x-rays.

Download or read book Technique for the Generation of Attosecond X Ray Pulses Using AnFEL written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We describe a technique for the generation of an isolated burst of X-ray radiation with a duration of (almost equal to) 100 attoseconds in a free electron laser (FEL) employing self-amplified spontaneous emission. Our scheme relies on an initial interaction of the electron beam with an ultra-short laser pulse in a one-period wiggler followed by compression in a dispersive section. The result of this interaction is to create a sub-femtosecond slice of the electron beam with enhanced growth rates for FEL amplification. After many gain lengths through the FEL undulator, the X-ray output from this slice dominates the radiation of the entire bunch. We consider the impact of various effects on the efficiency of this technique. Different configurations are considered in order to realize various timing structures for the resulting radiation.

Download or read book Obtaining Attosecond X ray Pulses Using a Self amplifiedspontaneous Emission Free Electron Laser written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We describe a technique for the generation of a solitary attosecond X-ray pulse in a free electron laser (FEL), via a process of self-amplified spontaneous emission. In this method, electrons experience an energy modulation upon interacting with laser pulses having a duration of a few cycles within single-period wiggler magnets. Two consecutive modulation sections, followed by compression in a dispersive section, are used to obtain a single, sub-femtosecond spike in the electron peak current. This region of the electron beam experiences an enhanced growth rate for FEL amplification. After propagation through a long undulator, this current spike emits a (almost equal to)250 attosecond X-ray pulse whose intensity dominates the X-ray emission from the rest of the electron bunch.

Download or read book Attosecond and XUV Physics written by Thomas Schultz and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-11-13 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides fundamental knowledge in the fields of attosecond science and free electron lasers, based on the insight that the further development of both disciplines can greatly benefit from mutual exposure and interaction between the two communities. With respect to the interaction of high intensity lasers with matter, it covers ultrafast lasers, high-harmonic generation, attosecond pulse generation and characterization. Other chapters review strong-field physics, free electron lasers and experimental instrumentation. Written in an easy accessible style, the book is aimed at graduate and postgraduate students so as to support the scientific training of early stage researchers in this emerging field. Special emphasis is placed on the practical approach of building experiments, allowing young researchers to develop a wide range of scientific skills in order to accelerate the development of spectroscopic techniques and their implementation in scientific experiments. The editors are managers of a research network devoted to the education of young scientists, and this book idea is based on a summer school organized by the ATTOFEL network.

Download or read book Generation of Attosecond X ray Pulses Beyond the Atomic Unit of Time Using Laser Induced Microbunching in Electron Beams written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since the discovery of mode-locking, efforts have been devoted to reducing the duration of laser pulses since the ultrashort pulses are critical to explore the dynamics occurred on a ever-shorter timescale. In this paper we describe a scheme that's capable of generating intense attosecond x-ray pulses with duration beyond the atomic unit of time ((almost equal to)24 attoseconds). The scheme combines the echo-enabled harmonic generation technique with the bunch compression which allows one to generate harmonic numbers of a few hundred in a microbunched beam through up-conversion of the frequency of a UV seed laser. A few-cycle intense IR laser is used to generate the required energy chirp in the beam for bunch compression and for selection of an attosecond x-ray pulse. Using a representative realistic set of parameters, we show that 1 nm x-ray pulse with peak power of a few hundred MW and duration as short as 20 attoseconds (FWHM) can be generated from a 200 nm UV seed laser. The proposed scheme may enable the study of electronic dynamics with a resolution beyond the atomic unit of time and may open a new regime of ultrafast sciences.

Download or read book Attosecond X Ray Pulses for Molecular Electronic Dynamics written by Mark Joseph Abel and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attosecond pulses are opening a wide new field on the border of chemistry and physics. They offer the opportunity to initiate and probe electronic rearrangement of atoms, molecules, solids and clusters on the natural timescale of the electron motion. This thesis is about making and measuring attosecond pulses, with the ultimate goal of applying attosecond spectroscopy to molecules. In chapter 1, attosecond spectroscopy is reviewed in general. The applications of attosecond pulses to atoms and molecules, including successful experiments and theoretical predictions, are discussed. In chapter 2, techniques for making and measuring attosecond radiation are presented. This chapter focuses on high harmonic generation from tabletop laser sources, since synchrotron- and free-electron laser-based techniques are not yet experimentally demonstrated. Chapters 3 and 4 discuss in detail the laboratory setup for attosecond pulse generation, including the laser source, optical diagnostics, and attosecond delay line. The attosecond control of free electron motion with few-cycle laser pulses is presented in chapter 5. There, the carrier-envelope phase (CEP), and thus the attosecond temporal evolution of the laser field, leads to quantum interferences between free electron wavefunctions and lends control over the direction of electron emission. Attosecond pulse production is achieved in chapter 6 by gating harmonic generation on the leading edge of the driving laser pulse. The gate mechanism is shown to rely on the macroscopic ionization of the harmonic generation medium. This final chapter also demonstrates a new technique for assessing attosecond pulse temporal structure based on the inversion of the driving laser field in the laboratory frame of reference, called CEP-scanning.

Download or read book Towards Attosecond X ray Pulses from the FEL written by Alexander A. Zholents and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ability to study ultrafast phenomena has been recently advanced by the demonstrated production and measurement of a single, 650-attosecond (10{sup 18} sec), VUV x-ray pulse[1] and, latter, a 250-attosecond pulse[2]. The next frontier is a production of the x-ray pulses with shorter wavelengths and in a broader spectral range. Several techniques for a generation of an isolated, attosecond duration, short-wavelength x-ray pulse based upon the ponderomotive laser acceleration [3], SASE and harmonic cascade FELs ([4] - [6]) had been already proposed. In this paper we briefly review a technique proposed in [5] and present some new results.

Download or read book Towards the Generation of Isolated Attosecond Pulses in the Water Window written by Seth Lucien Cousin and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attosecond science investigates the realm of processes that happen in fleetingly short passages of time. One attosecond to one second, is what one second is to the age of the universe! Advances in lasers and specifically ultra-short pulsed lasers have opened the door to this extreme frontier of physics. In this thesis I will describe what is required from a laser system in order to access these time scales. The stringent requirements needed motivated us to extensively study, model, redesign and then finally rebuild our laser system making it capable of delivering the necessary laser pulses. Characterisation of these types of laser pulses is essential in making them usable in the pursuit of a fundamental understanding of ultrashort physical processes. Two new characterisation techniques have been developed to add to the suite of tools available to the scientific community to achieve the complicated goal of characterising femtosecond laser pulses. To jump from the femtosecond regime to the attosecond regime, high harmonic generation is currently the defacto method of getting there. I will give a detailed description of our high harmonic beamline, which ultimately is used to perform the first water-window radiation range spectroscopy from a high harmonic source. Intrinsic to the radiation generated for spectroscopy is the sub-femtosecond temporal structure of the radiation. Temporal characterisation of attosecond pulses is traditionally done using the attosecond streaking technique however until now, this technique has not been used in the water-window. X-ray pulses possessing our ultra-broad bandwidth and central photon energy are unprecedented, making this the first time that a streaking experiment is done in this regime.

Download or read book X Ray Lasers 2004 written by J Zhang and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2005-06-15 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: X-Ray Lasers 2004 comprises invited, contributed, and poster papers presented at the 9th International Conference on X-Ray Lasers (ICXRL2004) held in Beijing in May 2004. Some 120 participants from 13 countries and regions met in Beijing to compare results and exchange views on future developments in x-ray lasers and related fields. The book covers the following topics: overviews of x-ray lasers research, collisionally pumped x-ray lasers, capillary discharge-pumped x-ray lasers, OFI and photo-pumped x-ray lasers, high-order harmonics XUV radiation, grazing incidence pumping x-ray lasers, theory and simulations of x-ray lasers and plasma media, free-electron lasers and accelerator-based x-ray sources, alternative pumping schemes for x-ray lasers, applications of x-ray lasers and other bright x-ray sources, x-ray optics and instrumentation, investigations of x-ray laser media, and developments of x-ray laser drivers. X-Ray Lasers 2004 provides not only an overview and an up-to-date progress report on this fast moving field, but also important reference material on which future work can be built.

Download or read book Beam Acceleration In Crystals And Nanostructures Proceedings Of The Workshop written by Gerard Mourou and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Laser Matter Interaction for Radiation and Energy written by Hitendra K. Malik and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-03-14 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The interaction of high-power lasers with matter can generate Terahertz radiations that efficiently contribute to THz Time-Domain Spectroscopy and also would replace X-rays in medical and security applications. When a short intense laser pulse ionizes a gas, it may produce new frequencies even in VUV to XUV domain. The duration of XUV pulses can be confined down to the isolated attosecond pulse levels, required to study the electronic re-arrangement and ultrafast processes. Another important aspect of laser-matter interaction is the laser thermonuclear fusion control where accelerated particles also find an efficient use. This book provides comprehensive coverage of the most essential topics, including Electromagnetic waves and lasers THz radiation using semiconducting materials / nanostructures / gases / plasmas Surface plasmon resonance THz radiation detection Particle acceleration technologies X-ray lasers High harmonics and attosecond lasers Laser based techniques of thermonuclear fusion Controlled fusion devices including NIF and ITER The book comprises of 11 chapters and every chapter starts with a lucid introduction to the main topic. Then sub-topics are sedulously discussed keeping in mind their basics, methodology, state-of-the-art and future perspective that will prove to be salutary for readers. High quality solved examples are appended to the chapters for their deep understanding and relevant applications. In view of the nature of the topics and their level of discussion, this book is expected to have pre-eminent potential for researchers along with postgraduate and undergraduate students all over the world.

Download or read book Generation and Characterization of Isolated Attosecond Pulse in the Soft X ray Regime written by Jie Li and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The observation of any atomic and molecular dynamics requires a probe that has a timescale comparable to the dynamics itself. Ever since the invention of laser, the temporal duration of the laser pulse has been incrementally reduced from several nanoseconds to just attoseconds. Picosecond and femtosecond laser pulses have been widely used to study molecular rotation and vibration.

Download or read book Attosecond and Femtosecond Beam Shaping for Nonlinear X ray Spectroscopy with X ray Free electron Laser written by Zhaoheng Guo and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: X-ray Free-Electron Lasers (XFELs) are the brightest source of X-ray radiation with sufficient intensity to perform nonlinear X-ray spectroscopy, such as pump-probe experiments. By extending the nonlinear soft X-ray pump-probe techniques to few-femtosecond and attosecond timescales, we can probe the motion of valence electrons in molecular systems on their natural time scale. In this thesis, I will discuss two projects that use advanced electron beam shaping techniques to generate attosecond soft X-ray FEL pulse pairs and high-intensity few-femtosecond pulses at the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS). In the first project, we demonstrated the generation and control of two-color soft X-ray FEL pulse pairs with attosecond-scale durations and timing stability. We employed angular streaking to measure the time delay between pump/probe pulses. These gigawatt-level attosecond soft X-ray FEL pump/probe pulse pairs have been applied to directly time-resolve the charge migration in molecules. In the second project, we used the wakefield of a corrugated structure called a dechirper to produce a nondestructive transverse kick in the electron beam and selectively radiated different slices of the electron beam in multiple stages, enabling the generation of few-femtosecond soft X-ray FEL pulses with peak power of hundreds of gigawatts.

Download or read book tudes on Theoretical Physics written by Leonid M. Barkovsky and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2004 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the results of many decades of research carried out by the Department of Theoretical Physics of the Belarusian State University, one of former USSR's prominent universities, providing a “snapshot” of the research activities of the department. With contributions form leading researchers who graduated from the department and now working in well known research centers around the world, this collection of works consists of selected mini-reviews of a wide variety of research topics on modern theoretical physics. It includes information on the methods and applications used in the various different research topics.This volume will be useful for advanced graduate students and doctorates who specialize in theoretical physics as well as researchers who would like to get concise information on the methods and applications of modern theoretical physics.The proceedings have been selected for coverage in: • CC / Physical, Chemical& Earth Sciences• Index to Scientific Book Contents® (ISBC®)

Download or read book Generating Intense Attosecond X Ray Pulses Using Ultraviolet Laser Induced Microbunching in Electron Beams written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We propose a scheme that combines the echo-enabled harmonic generation technique with the bunch compression and allows to generate harmonic numbers of a few hundred in a microbunched beam through up-conversion of the frequency of an ultraviolet seed laser. Sending this beam through a short undulator results in an isolated sub-100 attoseconds pulse of x-ray radiation. Using a representative realistic set of parameters, we show that 1 nm x-ray pulse with peak power exceeding 100 MW and duration as short as 34 attoseconds (FWHM) can be generated from a 200 nm ultraviolet seed laser.

Download or read book Modeling Generation and Characterization of Attosecond Pulses written by Siddharth Bhardwaj and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generation of high-order harmonics has emerged as a powerful technique for the generation of broadband coherent radiation in the EUV regime. This has lead to the development of table-top EUV sources that can produce attosecond pulses. These pulses can serve as a probe to resolve atomic attosecond dynamics and image atomic orbitals and molecular motion. Due to high spatial and temporal coherence, high-order harmonic radiation can also be used to seed free electron lasers, which allow the generation of high-intensity X-ray radiation that can be used for imaging biomolecules. Since the first observation of high-order harmonics, effort has been made to accurately model both the generation and the characterization of attosecond pulses. Work on the modeling of high harmonic generation can be divided into two parts: (a) description of the interaction between the JR pulse and atoms that leads to emission of attosecond pulses (the single atom response) and (b) modeling of the propagation of attosecond pulses by accounting for macroscopic phase matching effects. In this work, we will focus on the single atom response which can be calculated either by numerically solving the time dependent Schrodinger equation (TDSE) or through the semi-classical three step model (TSM). In Chapter 2, the theory of light-atom interaction will be reviewed with the focus on the calculation of the dipole trasition matrix element (DTME) in the strong field formalism. It will be shown that the choice of the basis states - Volkov states and Coulomb Volkov states - to describe electrons in the continuum is crucial to the accuracy of DTME calculation. In Chapter 3, the TSM will be derived from the Schrodinger equation by using the saddle point approximation. Through this derivation, the quantum mechanical laser-atom interaction is reduced to a semi-classical model comprising of ionization, propagation and recombination . The numerical scheme for solving the TDSE will be discussed. It will then be used to demonstrate the generation of isolated attosecond pulses from non-sinusoidal sub-cycle pulses. The results of ADK and non-adiabatic ionization models will be compared with that from numerical TDSE, and then used to calculate the harmonic spectra in the tunneling and multi-photon ionization regimes. The recombination step of the TSM, which plays a crucial role in determining the qualitative shape of the high-order harmonic spectrum, will be investigated in Chapter 4. A commonly observed feature of Argon's high-order harmonic spectrum is the presence of a minimum at around 50 eV called the Cooper minimum. The minimum in the high-order harmonic spectrum has been attributed to the minimum in the recombination amplitude. The recombination amplitude will be calculated - in the strong field formalism - using length and acceleration form for two choices of continuum electron wavefunction description (Volkov and Coulomb-Volkov). Attosecond pulse characterization techniques, which are an extension of the subpicosecond pulse characterization technique like FROG and SPIDER, rely on the photoionization process to transfer the amplitude and phase information of the attosecond pulse to the photoelectron spectrum. For accurate pulse characterization, it is crucial to model the photoionization process accurately. Since photoionization and recombination are reverse processes, the improvements in the calculation of the recombination amplitude in Chapter 4, can be used to improve the model function of the pulse retrieval algorithm. It will be shown that the proposed improvements are crucial for accurate characterization of low energy EUV pulses.

Download or read book X Ray Free Electron Laser written by Kiyoshi Ueda and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2018-07-04 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "X-Ray Free-Electron Laser" that was published in Applied Sciences