Time-resolved x-ray imaging of a laser-induced nanoplasma and its neutral residuals
The evolution of individual, large gas-phase xenon clusters, turned into a nanoplasma by a high power infrared laser pulse, is tracked from femtoseconds up to nanoseconds after laser excitation via coherent diffractive imaging, using ultra-short soft x-ray free electron laser pulses. A decline of sc...
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| author | L Flückiger D Rupp M Adolph T Gorkhover M Krikunova M Müller T Oelze Y Ovcharenko M Sauppe S Schorb C Bostedt S Düsterer M Harmand H Redlin R Treusch T Möller |
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| description | The evolution of individual, large gas-phase xenon clusters, turned into a nanoplasma by a high power infrared laser pulse, is tracked from femtoseconds up to nanoseconds after laser excitation via coherent diffractive imaging, using ultra-short soft x-ray free electron laser pulses. A decline of scattering signal at high detection angles with increasing time delay indicates a softening of the cluster surface. Here we demonstrate, for the first time a representative speckle pattern of a new stage of cluster expansion for xenon clusters after a nanosecond irradiation. The analysis of the measured average speckle size and the envelope of the intensity distribution reveals a mean cluster size and length scale of internal density fluctuations. The measured diffraction patterns were reproduced by scattering simulations which assumed that the cluster expands with pronounced internal density fluctuations hundreds of picoseconds after excitation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-edb1c18c0dcb420d995ddccc1b66688c2023-08-08T14:30:47ZengIOP PublishingNew Journal of Physics1367-26302016-01-0118404301710.1088/1367-2630/18/4/043017Time-resolved x-ray imaging of a laser-induced nanoplasma and its neutral residualsL Flückiger0D Rupp1M Adolph2T Gorkhover3M Krikunova4M Müller5T Oelze6Y Ovcharenko7M Sauppe8S Schorb9C Bostedt10S Düsterer11M Harmand12H Redlin13R Treusch14T Möller15Institut für Optik und Atomare Physik, Technische Universität Berlin , Hardenbergstrasse 36, D-10623 Berlin, Germany; ARC Centre of Advanced Molecular Imaging, Department of Chemistry and Physics, La Trobe University, Melbourne , 3086, AustraliaInstitut für Optik und Atomare Physik, Technische Universität Berlin , Hardenbergstrasse 36, D-10623 Berlin, GermanyInstitut für Optik und Atomare Physik, Technische Universität Berlin , Hardenbergstrasse 36, D-10623 Berlin, GermanyInstitut für Optik und Atomare Physik, Technische Universität Berlin , Hardenbergstrasse 36, D-10623 Berlin, Germany; SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory , 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USAInstitut für Optik und Atomare Physik, Technische Universität Berlin , Hardenbergstrasse 36, D-10623 Berlin, GermanyInstitut für Optik und Atomare Physik, Technische Universität Berlin , Hardenbergstrasse 36, D-10623 Berlin, GermanyInstitut für Optik und Atomare Physik, Technische Universität Berlin , Hardenbergstrasse 36, D-10623 Berlin, GermanyInstitut für Optik und Atomare Physik, Technische Universität Berlin , Hardenbergstrasse 36, D-10623 Berlin, Germany; European XFEL GmbH, Notkestraße 85, D-22607 Hamburg, GermanyInstitut für Optik und Atomare Physik, Technische Universität Berlin , Hardenbergstrasse 36, D-10623 Berlin, GermanyInstitut für Optik und Atomare Physik, Technische Universität Berlin , Hardenbergstrasse 36, D-10623 Berlin, Germany; SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory , 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USASLAC National Accelerator Laboratory , 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA; Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439, USADeutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestraße 85, D-22607 Hamburg, GermanyDeutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestraße 85, D-22607 Hamburg, Germany; Institute of Mineralogy , Materials Physics and Cosmochemistry, 4 Place Jussieu, F-75252 Paris, FranceDeutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestraße 85, D-22607 Hamburg, GermanyDeutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestraße 85, D-22607 Hamburg, GermanyInstitut für Optik und Atomare Physik, Technische Universität Berlin , Hardenbergstrasse 36, D-10623 Berlin, GermanyThe evolution of individual, large gas-phase xenon clusters, turned into a nanoplasma by a high power infrared laser pulse, is tracked from femtoseconds up to nanoseconds after laser excitation via coherent diffractive imaging, using ultra-short soft x-ray free electron laser pulses. A decline of scattering signal at high detection angles with increasing time delay indicates a softening of the cluster surface. Here we demonstrate, for the first time a representative speckle pattern of a new stage of cluster expansion for xenon clusters after a nanosecond irradiation. The analysis of the measured average speckle size and the envelope of the intensity distribution reveals a mean cluster size and length scale of internal density fluctuations. The measured diffraction patterns were reproduced by scattering simulations which assumed that the cluster expands with pronounced internal density fluctuations hundreds of picoseconds after excitation.https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/18/4/043017clustersfree-electron laserpump–probe experimenttime-resolved imagingnanoplasma |
| spellingShingle | L Flückiger D Rupp M Adolph T Gorkhover M Krikunova M Müller T Oelze Y Ovcharenko M Sauppe S Schorb C Bostedt S Düsterer M Harmand H Redlin R Treusch T Möller Time-resolved x-ray imaging of a laser-induced nanoplasma and its neutral residuals New Journal of Physics clusters free-electron laser pump–probe experiment time-resolved imaging nanoplasma |
| title | Time-resolved x-ray imaging of a laser-induced nanoplasma and its neutral residuals |
| title_full | Time-resolved x-ray imaging of a laser-induced nanoplasma and its neutral residuals |
| title_fullStr | Time-resolved x-ray imaging of a laser-induced nanoplasma and its neutral residuals |
| title_full_unstemmed | Time-resolved x-ray imaging of a laser-induced nanoplasma and its neutral residuals |
| title_short | Time-resolved x-ray imaging of a laser-induced nanoplasma and its neutral residuals |
| title_sort | time resolved x ray imaging of a laser induced nanoplasma and its neutral residuals |
| topic | clusters free-electron laser pump–probe experiment time-resolved imaging nanoplasma |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/18/4/043017 |
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