2020, Malm, Erik, Wikmark, Hampus, Pfau, Bastian, Villanueva-Perez, Pablo, Rudawski, Piotr, Peschel, Jasper, Maclot, Sylvain, Schneider, Michael, Eisebitt, Stefan, Mikkelsen, Anders, L’Huillier, Anne, Johnsson, Per

Singleshot polychromatic coherent diffractive imaging is performed with a high-intensity high-order harmonic generation source. The coherence properties are analyzed and several reconstructions show the shot-to-shot fluctuations of the incident beam wavefront. The method is based on a multi-step approach. First, the spectrum is extracted from double-slit diffraction data. The spectrum is used as input to extract the monochromatic sample diffraction pattern, then phase retrieval is performed on the quasi-monochromatic data to obtain the sample’s exit surface wave. Reconstructions based on guided error reduction (ER) and alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) are compared. ADMM allows additional penalty terms to be included in the cost functional to promote sparsity within the reconstruction. © 2020 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement.

2017-04-10, Savelyev, Evgeny, Boll, Rebecca, Bomme, Cédric, Schirmel, Nora, Redlin, Harald, Erk, Benjamin, Düsterer, Stefan, Müller, Erland, Höppner, Hauke, Toleikis, Sven, Müller, Jost, Kristin Czwalinna, Marie, Treusch, Rolf, Kierspel, Thomas, Mullins, Terence, Trippel, Sebastian, Wiese, Joss, Küpper, Jochen, Brauβe, Felix, Krecinic, Faruk, Rouzée, Arnaud, Rudawski, Piotr, Johnsson, Per, Amini, Kasra, Lauer, Alexandra, Burt, Michael, Brouard, Mark, Christensen, Lauge, Thøgersen, Jan, Stapelfeldt, Henrik, Berrah, Nora, Müller, Maria, Ulmer, Anatoli, Techert, Simone, Rudenko, Artem, Rolles, Daniel

In pump-probe experiments employing a free-electron laser (FEL) in combination with a synchronized optical femtosecond laser, the arrival-time jitter between the FEL pulse and the optical laser pulse often severely limits the temporal resolution that can be achieved. Here, we present a pump-probe experiment on the UV-induced dissociation of 2,6-difluoroiodobenzene (C6H3F2I) molecules performed at the FLASH FEL that takes advantage of recent upgrades of the FLASH timing and synchronization system to obtain high-quality data that are not limited by the FEL arrival-time jitter. We discuss in detail the necessary data analysis steps and describe the origin of the time-dependent effects in the yields and kinetic energies of the fragment ions that we observe in the experiment.