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We present a new scheme for establishing longitudinal coherence in the output of X-ray FELs. It uses a sequence of undulators and delay chicanes and the careful tailoring of the initial e-beam with time dependent focusing. Simulation of a…
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Time-resolved photoemission with ultrafast pump and probe pulses is an emerging technique with wide application potential. Real-time recording of non-equilibrium electronic processes, transient states in chemical reactions or the interplay…
We show that nearly degenerate Vertical External-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers emit tilted beams of time localized structures, i.e. mode-locked light pulses which can be individually addressed. These beams feature a Gaussian profile and…
The advent of X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) has revolutionized fundamental science, from atomic to condensed matter physics, from chemistry to biology, giving researchers access to X-rays with unprecedented brightness, coherence, and…
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We develop the XCALIB toolkit to calibrate the beam profile of an X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) at the focal spot based on the experimental charge state distributions (CSDs) of light atoms. Accurate characterization of the fluence…
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