Abstract

We present a table-top beamline providing a soft X-ray supercontinuum extending up to 370 eV from high-order harmonic generation with sub-13 fs 1300 nm driving pulses and simultaneous production of sub-5 fs pulses centered at 800 nm. Optimization of high harmonic generation in a long and dense gas medium yields a photon flux of  ~ 1.4 × 106 photons/s/1% bandwidth at 300 eV. The temporal resolution of X-ray transient absorption experiments with this beamline is measured to be 11 fs for 800 nm excitation. This dual-wavelength approach, combined with high flux and high spectral and temporal resolution soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy, is a new route to the study of ultrafast electronic dynamics in carbon-containing molecules and materials at the carbon K-edge.

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Title
Efficient table-top dual-wavelength beamline for ultrafast transient absorption spectroscopy in the soft X-ray region
Author
Barreau Lou 1 ; Ross, Andrew D 1 ; Garg Samay 2 ; Kraus, Peter M 3 ; Neumark, Daniel M 1 ; Leone, Stephen R 4 

 University of California, Department of Chemistry, Berkeley, USA (GRID:grid.47840.3f) (ISNI:0000 0001 2181 7878); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Chemical Sciences Division, Berkeley, USA (GRID:grid.184769.5) (ISNI:0000 0001 2231 4551) 
 University of California, Department of Chemistry, Berkeley, USA (GRID:grid.47840.3f) (ISNI:0000 0001 2181 7878) 
 University of California, Department of Chemistry, Berkeley, USA (GRID:grid.47840.3f) (ISNI:0000 0001 2181 7878); Advanced Research Center for Nanolithography (ARCNL), Science Park 106, 1098 XG, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (GRID:grid.494537.8) 
 University of California, Department of Chemistry, Berkeley, USA (GRID:grid.47840.3f) (ISNI:0000 0001 2181 7878); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Chemical Sciences Division, Berkeley, USA (GRID:grid.184769.5) (ISNI:0000 0001 2231 4551); University of California, Department of Physics, Berkeley, USA (GRID:grid.47840.3f) (ISNI:0000 0001 2181 7878) 
Publication year
2020
Publication date
2020
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
e-ISSN
20452322
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2386369658
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2020. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.