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JOURNAL OF SYNCHROTRON RADIATION
Volume 18, Issue -, Pages 658-670Publisher
INT UNION CRYSTALLOGRAPHY
DOI: 10.1107/S0909049511009423
Keywords
synchrotron beamline; Laue crystallography; time-resolved crystallography; X-ray optics
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- US Department of Energy, Basic Energy Sciences, Office of Science [DE-AC02-06CH11357]
- National Institutes of Health, National Center for Research Resources [RR007707]
- NIH/NIDDK
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BioCARS, a NIH-supported national user facility for macromolecular time-resolved X-ray crystallography at the Advanced Photon Source (APS), has recently completed commissioning of an upgraded undulator-based beamline optimized for single-shot laser-pump X-ray-probe measurements with time resolution as short as 100 ps. The source consists of two in-line undulators with periods of 23 and 27 mm that together provide high-flux pink-beam capability at 12 keV as well as first-harmonic coverage from 6.8 to 19 keV. A high-heat-load chopper reduces the average power load on downstream components, thereby preserving the surface figure of a Kirkpatrick-Baez mirror system capable of focusing the X-ray beam to a spot size of 90 mu m horizontal by 20 mu m vertical. A high-speed chopper isolates single X-ray pulses at 1 kHz in both hybrid and 24-bunch modes of the APS storage ring. In hybrid mode each isolated X-ray pulse delivers up to similar to 4 x 10(10) photons to the sample, thereby achieving a time-averaged flux approaching that of fourth-generation X-FEL sources. A new high-power picosecond laser system delivers pulses tunable over the wavelength range 450-2000 nm. These pulses are synchronized to the storage-ring RF clock with long-term stability better than 10 ps RMS. Monochromatic experimental capability with Biosafety Level 3 certification has been retained.
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