Toward the Generation of an Isolated TW-Attosecond X-ray Pulse in XFEL

Abstract

The isolated terawatt (TW) attosecond (as) hard X-ray pulse will expand the scope of ultrafast science, including the examination of phenomena that have not been studied before, such as the dynamics of electron clouds in atoms, single-molecule imaging, and examining the dynamics of hollow atoms. Therefore, several schemes for the generation of an isolated TW-as X-ray pulse in X-ray free electron laser (XFEL) facilities have been proposed with the manipulation of electron properties such as emittance or current. In a multi-spike scheme, a series of current spikes were employed to amplify the X-ray pulse. A single-spike scheme in which a TW-as X-ray pulse can be generated by a single current spike was investigated for ideal parameters for the XFEL machine. This paper reviews the proposed schemes and assesses the feasibility of each scheme.

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Parc YW, Shim CH, Kim DE. Toward the Generation of an Isolated TW-Attosecond X-ray Pulse in XFEL. Applied Sciences. 2018; 8(9):1588.https://doi.org/10.3390/app8091588

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