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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2022

A perfect X-ray beam splitter and its applications to time-domain interferometry and quantum optics exploiting free-electron lasers.

Sven Reiche, Gregor Knopp, Bill Pedrini, Eduard Prat, Gabriel Aeppli, Simon Gerber

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Sven ReicheLarge Research Facilities and Photon Science Divisions, Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland.
Gregor KnoppLarge Research Facilities and Photon Science Divisions, Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland.
Bill PedriniLarge Research Facilities and Photon Science Divisions, Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland.
Eduard PratLarge Research Facilities and Photon Science Divisions, Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland.
Gabriel AeppliLarge Research Facilities and Photon Science Divisions, Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland; aepplig@ethz.ch simon.gerber@psi.ch.
Simon GerberLarge Research Facilities and Photon Science Divisions, Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland; aepplig@ethz.ch simon.gerber@psi.ch.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

X-ray free-electron lasers (FELs) deliver ultrabright X-ray pulses, but not the sequences of phase-coherent pulses required for time-domain interferometry and control of quantum states. For conventional split-and-delay schemes to produce such sequences, the challenge stems from extreme stability requirements when splitting Ångstrom wavelength beams, where the tiniest path-length differences introduce phase jitter. We describe an FEL mode based on selective electron-bunch degradation and transverse beam shaping in the accelerator, combined with a self-seeded photon emission scheme. Instead of splitting the photon pulses after their generation by the FEL, we split the electron bunch in the accelerator, prior to photon generation, to obtain phase-locked X-ray pulses with subfemtosecond duration. Time-domain interferometry becomes possible, enabling the concomitant program of classical and quantum optics experiments with X-rays. The scheme leads to scientific benefits of cutting-edge FELs with attosecond and/or high-repetition rate capabilities, ranging from the X-ray analog of Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy to damage-free measurements.

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free-electron lasersnonlinear opticsphase coherencespectroscopyX-rays

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PMID35140184
PMCPMC8851450

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