Exploring the Wavefront of Hard X-ray Free-electron Laser Radiation

Overview

Journal Nat Commun

Specialty Biology

Date 2012 Jul 12

PMID 22781760

Citations 17

Authors

Simon Rutishauser

Liubov Samoylova

Jacek Krzywinski

Oliver Bunk

Jan Grunert

Harald Sinn

Marco Cammarata

David M Fritz

Christian David

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Abstract

The high photon flux and femtosecond pulse duration of hard X-ray free-electron lasers have spurred a large variety of novel and fascinating experiments in physical, chemical and biological sciences. Many of these experiments depend fundamentally on a clean, well-defined wavefront. Here we explore the wavefront properties of hard X-ray free-electron laser radiation by means of a grating interferometer, from which we obtain shot-to-shot wavefront information with an excellent angular sensitivity on the order of ten nanoradian. The wavefront distortions introduced by optical elements are observed in-situ and under operational conditions. The source-point position and fluctuations are measured with unprecedented accuracy in longitudinal and lateral direction, both during nominal operation and as the X-ray free-electron laser is driven into saturation.

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