Experimental setups for FEL-based four-wave mixing experiments at FERMI

Experimental setups for FEL-based four-wave mixing experiments at FERMI

The recent advent of free-electron laser (FEL) sources is driving the scientific community to extend table-top laser research to shorter wavelengths adding elemental selectivity and chemical state specificity. Both a compact setup (mini-TIMER) and a separate instrument (EIS-TIMER) dedicated to four-...

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Publié dans:Journal of synchrotron radiation. - 1994. - 23(2016), 1 vom: 25. Jan., Seite 132-40
Auteur principal: Bencivenga, Filippo (Auteur)
Autres auteurs: Zangrando, Marco, Svetina, Cristian, Abrami, Alessandro, Battistoni, Andrea, Borghes, Roberto, Capotondi, Flavio, Cucini, Riccardo, Dallari, Francesco, Danailov, Miltcho, Demidovich, Alexander, Fava, Claudio, Gaio, Giulio, Gerusina, Simone, Gessini, Alessandro, Giacuzzo, Fabio, Gobessi, Riccardo, Godnig, Roberto, Grisonich, Riccardo, Kiskinova, Maya, Kurdi, Gabor, Loda, Giorgio, Lonza, Marco, Mahne, Nicola, Manfredda, Michele, Mincigrucci, Riccardo, Pangon, Gianpiero, Parisse, Pietro, Passuello, Roberto, Pedersoli, Emanuele, Pivetta, Lorenzo, Prica, Milan, Principi, Emiliano, Rago, Ilaria, Raimondi, Lorenzo, Sauro, Roberto, Scarcia, Martin, Sigalotti, Paolo, Zaccaria, Maurizio, Masciovecchio, Claudio
Format: Article en ligne
Langue:English
Publié: 2016
Accès à la collection:Journal of synchrotron radiation
Sujets:Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't four-wave-mixing free-electron lasers non-linear optics transient grating
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Résumé:The recent advent of free-electron laser (FEL) sources is driving the scientific community to extend table-top laser research to shorter wavelengths adding elemental selectivity and chemical state specificity. Both a compact setup (mini-TIMER) and a separate instrument (EIS-TIMER) dedicated to four-wave-mixing (FWM) experiments has been designed and constructed, to be operated as a branch of the Elastic and Inelastic Scattering beamline: EIS. The FWM experiments that are planned at EIS-TIMER are based on the transient grating approach, where two crossed FEL pulses create a controlled modulation of the sample excitations while a third time-delayed pulse is used to monitor the dynamics of the excited state. This manuscript describes such experimental facilities, showing the preliminary results of the commissioning of the EIS-TIMER beamline, and discusses original experimental strategies being developed to study the dynamics of matter at the fs-nm time-length scales. In the near future such experimental tools will allow more sophisticated FEL-based FWM applications, that also include the use of multiple and multi-color FEL pulses
Description:Date Completed 20.04.2016
Date Revised 24.12.2015
published: Print-Electronic
Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE
ISSN:1600-5775
DOI:10.1107/S1600577515021104