Experimental setups for FEL-based four-wave mixing experiments at FERMI
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- 作者：Filippo Bencivenga ; Marco Zangrando ; Cristian Svetina ; Alessandro Abrami ; Andrea Battistoni ; Roberto Borghes ; Flavio Capotondi ; Riccardo Cucini ; Francesco Dallari ; Miltcho Danailov ; Alexander Demidovich ; Claudio Fava ; Giulio Gaio ; Simone Gerusina ; Alessandro Gessini ; Fabio Giacuzzo ; Riccardo Gobessi ; Roberto Godnig ; Riccardo Grisonich ; Maya Kiskinova ; Gabor Kurdi ; Giorgio Loda ; Marco Lonza ; Nicola Mahne ; Michele Manfredda ; Riccardo Mincigrucci ; Gianpiero Pangon ; Pietro Parisse ; Roberto Passuello ; Emanuele Pedersoli ; Lorenzo Pivetta ; Milan Prica ; Emiliano Principi ; Ilaria Rago ; Lorenzo Raimondi ; Roberto Sauro ; Martin Scarcia ; Paolo Sigalotti ; Maurizio Zaccaria and Claudio Masciovecchio
- 关键词：free-electron lasers ; non-linear optics ; four-wave-mixing ; transient grating
- 刊名：Journal of Synchrotron Radiation
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：January 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：23
- 期：1
- 页码：132-140
- 全文大小：1433K
- ISSN：1600-5775
文摘
The recent advent of free-electron laser (FEL) sources is driving the scientific community to extend table-top laser research to shorter wavelengths adding elemental selectivity and chemical state specificity. Both a compact setup (mini-TIMER) and a separate instrument (EIS-TIMER) dedicated to four-wave-mixing (FWM) experiments has been designed and constructed, to be operated as a branch of the Elastic and Inelastic Scattering beamline: EIS. The FWM experiments that are planned at EIS-TIMER are based on the transient grating approach, where two crossed FEL pulses create a controlled modulation of the sample excitations while a third time-delayed pulse is used to monitor the dynamics of the excited state. This manuscript describes such experimental facilities, showing the preliminary results of the commissioning of the EIS-TIMER beamline, and discusses original experimental strategies being developed to study the dynamics of matter at the fs–nm time–length scales. In the near future such experimental tools will allow more sophisticated FEL-based FWM applications, that also include the use of multiple and multi-color FEL pulses.