Near- and extended-edge x-ray-absorption fine-structure spectroscopy using ultrafast coherent high-order harmonic supercontinua

Published

March 1, 2018

Author(s)

Dimitar Popmintchev, Benjamin Galloway, Ming-Chang Chen, Franklin Dolar, Christopher Mancuso, Amelia Hankla, Luis Miaja Avila, Galen O'Neil, Guangyu Fan, Skirmantas Alisauskas, Giedrius Andriukaitis, Tadas Balciunas, Oliver M?cke, Audrius Pugzlys, Andrius Baltuska, Henry C. Kapteyn, Tenio Popmintchev, Margaret M. Murnane

Abstract

Phase matching of the high-order harmonic generation process now makes it possible to produce spatially and temporally coherent ultrafast X-ray beams, with bandwidths spanning more than 12 octaves, from the UV to the keV region. Here we report the first static X-ray absorption spectroscopy at the K- and L-absorption edges of solids in the near-keV range. We also demonstrate X-ray absorption spectroscopy in the ‘water window' spectral region (284 - 541 𝑒𝑉) using an X-ray supercontinuum with high flux (109 𝑝ℎ𝑜𝑡𝑜𝑛𝑠/𝑠 𝑖𝑛 1% 𝑏𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑤𝑖𝑑𝑡ℎ), which is two orders of magnitude larger than has been previously demonstrated. In the future, because this X-ray radiation emerges as an isolated single attosecond-to-femtosecond burst, with peak brilliance exceeding 1026 𝑝ℎ𝑜𝑡𝑜𝑛𝑠/𝑠/𝑚𝑟𝑎𝑑2/𝑚𝑚2/1% 𝑏𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑤𝑖𝑑𝑡ℎ, these novel coherent X-ray sources will be ideal for dynamic probing of the fastest processes in molecules and materials on sub-femtosecond time and picometer length scales.

Citation

Physical Review B

Volume

120

Issue

9

Pub Type

Journals

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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.093002

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Keywords

x-ray absorption, spectroscopy, ultrafast coherent, harmonic supercontinua

Citation

Popmintchev, D. , Galloway, B. , Chen, M. , Dolar, F. , Mancuso, C. , Hankla, A. , Miaja Avila, L. , O'Neil, G. , Fan, G. , Alisauskas, S. , Andriukaitis, G. , Balciunas, T. , M?cke, O. , Pugzlys, A. , Baltuska, A. , Kapteyn, H. , Popmintchev, T. and Murnane, M. (2018), Near- and extended-edge x-ray-absorption fine-structure spectroscopy using ultrafast coherent high-order harmonic supercontinua, Physical Review B, [online], https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.093002, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=922901 (Accessed October 7, 2025)