Journal
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
Volume 7, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/app7060544
Keywords
white light interferometry; split-and-delay unit; XUV optics characterization; pump-probe
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft through excellence cluster The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging (CUI)-Structure, Dynamics and Control of Matter at Atomic Scale [DFG-EXC1074]
- collaborative research center Light-induced Dynamics and Control of Correlated Quantum Systems [SFB925]
- GrK [1355]
- Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany [05K16GU4]
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In this work we present a reflective split-and-delay unit (SDU) developed for interferometric time-resolved experiments utilizing an (extreme ultraviolet) XUV pump-XUV probe scheme with focused free-electron laser beams. The developed SDU overcomes limitations for phase-resolved measurements inherent to conventional two-element split mirrors by a special design using two reflective lamellar gratings. The gratings produce a high-contrast interference signal controlled by the grating displacement in every diffraction order. The orders are separated in the focal plane of the focusing optics, which enables one to avoid phase averaging by spatially selective detection of a single interference state of the two light fields. Interferometry requires a precise relative phase control of the light fields, which presents a challenge at short wavelengths. In our setup the phase delay is determined by an in-vacuum white light interferometer (WLI) that monitors the surface profile of the SDU in real time and thus measures the delay for each laser shot. The precision of the WLI is 1 nm as determined by optical laser interferometry. In the presented experimental geometry it corresponds to a time delay accuracy of 3 as, which enables phase-resolved XUV pump-XUV probe experiments at free-electron laser (FEL) repetition rates up to 60 Hz.
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