X-ray free-electron lasers

BWJ McNeil, NR Thompson - Nature photonics, 2010 - nature.com
With intensities 108–1010 times greater than other laboratory sources, X-ray free-electron
lasers are currently opening up new frontiers across many areas of science. In this Review …

Simulating coherent multidimensional spectroscopy of nonadiabatic molecular processes: From the infrared to the x-ray regime

M Kowalewski, BP Fingerhut, KE Dorfman… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Crossings of electronic potential energy surfaces in nuclear configuration space, known as
conical intersections, determine the rates and outcomes of a large class of photochemical …

Tunable isolated attosecond X-ray pulses with gigawatt peak power from a free-electron laser

J Duris, S Li, T Driver, EG Champenois… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The quantum-mechanical motion of electrons in molecules and solids occurs on the sub-
femtosecond timescale. Consequently, the study of ultrafast electronic phenomena requires …

Generating single-spike hard X-ray pulses with nonlinear bunch compression in free-electron lasers

S Huang, Y Ding, Y Feng, E Hemsing, Z Huang… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
A simple method for generating single-spike hard x-ray pulses in free-electron lasers (FELs)
has been developed at the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS). This is realized by …

Impact of hollow-atom formation on coherent x-ray scattering at high intensity

SK Son, L Young, R Santra - Physical Review A—Atomic, Molecular, and …, 2011 - APS
X-ray free-electron lasers (FELs) are promising tools for structural determination of
macromolecules via coherent x-ray scattering. During ultrashort and ultraintense x-ray …

Catching conical intersections in the act: Monitoring transient electronic coherences by attosecond stimulated X-ray Raman signals

M Kowalewski, K Bennett, KE Dorfman, S Mukamel - Physical review letters, 2015 - APS
Conical intersections (CIs) dominate the pathways and outcomes of virtually all
photophysical and photochemical molecular processes. Despite extensive experimental and …

Beam by design: Laser manipulation of electrons in modern accelerators

E Hemsing, G Stupakov, D Xiang, A Zholents - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2014 - APS
Accelerator-based light sources such as storage rings and free-electron lasers use
relativistic electron beams to produce intense radiation over a wide spectral range for …

Broadband coherent diffractive imaging

J Huijts, S Fernandez, D Gauthier, M Kholodtsova… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Recent technological advances in attosecond science hold the promise of tracking
electronic processes at the shortest space and time scales. However, the necessary imaging …

Free electron lasers: Present status and future challenges

WA Barletta, J Bisognano, JN Corlett, P Emma… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2010 - Elsevier
With the scientific successes of the soft X-ray FLASH facility in Germany and the recent
spectacular commissioning of the Linac Coherent Light Source at SLAC, free electron lasers …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental demonstration of a single-spike hard-X-ray free-electron laser starting from noise

A Marinelli, J MacArthur, P Emma, M Guetg… - Applied Physics …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
In this letter, we report the experimental demonstration of single-spike hard-X-ray free-
electron laser pulses starting from noise with multi-eV bandwidth. This is accomplished by …