1. Coherence and pulse duration characterization of the PAL-XFEL in the hard X-ray regime
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Hyerim Hwang, Daewoong Nam, Dongjin Kim, Sang-Youn Park, Sung-Won Kim, Kyuseok Yun, Changyong Song, Wonhyuk Jo, Kyung Sook Kim, Sooheyong Lee, Jangwoo Kim, Hyunjung Kim, Sang Soo Kim, and Myungwoo Chung
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0301 basic medicine ,Physics ,Coherence time ,Multidisciplinary ,business.industry ,lcsh:R ,Free-electron laser ,lcsh:Medicine ,Pulse duration ,Undulator ,Article ,SACLA ,03 medical and health sciences ,Speckle pattern ,030104 developmental biology ,0302 clinical medicine ,Optics ,lcsh:Q ,Spontaneous emission ,Monochromatic color ,lcsh:Science ,business ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
We characterize the spatial and temporal coherence properties of hard X-ray pulses from the Pohang Accelerator Laboratory X-ray Free Electron Laser (PAL-XFEL, Pohang, Korea). The measurement of the single-shot speckle contrast, together with the introduction of corrections considering experimental conditions, allows obtaining an intrinsic degree of transverse coherence of 0.85 ± 0.06. In the Self-Amplified Spontaneous Emission regime, the analysis of the intensity distribution of X-ray pulses also provides an estimate for the number of longitudinal modes. For monochromatic and pink (i.e. natural bandwidth provided by the first harmonic of the undulator) beams, we observe that the number of temporal modes is 6.0 ± 0.4 and 90.0 ± 7.2, respectively. Assuming a coherence time of 2.06 fs and 0.14 fs for the monochromatic and pink beam respectively, we estimate an average X-ray pulse duration of 12.6 ± 1.0 fs.
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- 2019