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    Highly efficient soft x-ray spectrometer for transient absorption spectroscopy with broadband table-top high harmonic sources
    (Melville, NY : AIP Publishing LLC, 2021) Kleine, Carlo; Ekimova, Maria; Winghart, Marc-Oliver; Eckert, Sebastian; Reichel, Oliver; Löchel, Heike; Probst, Jürgen; Braig, Christoph; Seifert, Christian; Erko, Alexei; Sokolov, Andrey; Vrakking, Marc J. J.; Nibbering, Erik T. J.; Rouzée, Arnaud
    We present a novel soft x-ray spectrometer for ultrafast absorption spectroscopy utilizing table-top femtosecond high-order harmonic sources. Where most commercially available spectrometers rely on spherical variable line space gratings with a typical efficiency on the order of 3% in the first diffractive order, this spectrometer, based on a Hettrick-Underwood design, includes a reflective zone plate as a dispersive element. An improved efficiency of 12% at the N K-edge is achieved, accompanied by a resolving power of 890. The high performance of the soft x-ray spectrometer is further demonstrated by comparing nitrogen K-edge absorption spectra from calcium nitrate in aqueous solution obtained with our high-order harmonic source to previous measurements performed at the electron storage ring facility BESSY II.