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| Journal Article | FZJ-2019-06262 |
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2015
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Washington, DC
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Please use a persistent id in citations: doi:10.1364/OL.40.002265
Abstract: Picosecond x-ray pulses are extracted with a phase-locked x-ray pulse selector at 1.25 MHz repetition rate from thepulse trains of the accelerator-driven multiuser x-ray source BESSY II preserving the peak brilliance at high pulsepurity. The system consists of a specially designed in-vacuum chopper wheel rotating with ≈1 kHz angular frequency.The wheel is driven in an ultrahigh vacuum and is levitated on magnetic bearings being capable of withstandinghigh centrifugal forces. Pulses are picked by 1252 high-precision slits of 70 μm width on the outer rim of thewheel corresponding to a temporal opening window of the chopper of 70 ns. We demonstrate how the electronicphase stabilization of +-2 ns together with an arrival time jitter of the individual slits of the same order of magnitudeallows us to pick short single bunch x-ray pulses out of a 200 ns ion clearing gap in a multibunch pulse train asemitted from a synchrotron facility at 1.25 MHz repetition rate with a pulse purity below the shot noise detectionlimit. The approach is applicable to any high-repetition pulsed radiation source, in particular in the x-ray spectralrange up to 10 keV. The opening window in a real x-ray beamline, its stability, as well as the limits of mechanicalpulse picking techniques in the MHz range are discussed.
Keyword(s): Instrument and Method Development (1st)
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