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Single-shot temporal profile measurement of a soft X-ray laser pulse

Instrumentation and Detectors 2018-11-06 v1 Optics

Abstract

We report an original method allowing to recover the temporal profile of any kind of soft X-ray laser pulse in single-shot operation. We irradiated a soft X-ray multilayer mirror with an intense infrared femtosecond laser pulse in a traveling wave geometry and took advantage of the sudden reflectivity drop of the mirror to reconstruct the temporal profile of the soft X-ray pulse. We inferred a pulse shape with a duration of a few ps in good agreement with numerical calculations and experimental work.

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@article{arxiv.1811.01858,
  title  = {Single-shot temporal profile measurement of a soft X-ray laser pulse},
  author = {Fabien Tissandier and Julien Gautier and Amar Tafzi and Jean-Philippe Goddet and Olivier Guilbaud and Eduardo Oliva and Gilles Maynard and Philippe Zeitoun and Stephane Sebban},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.01858},
  year   = {2018}
}