Highlight: Split-mirror for XUV and soft X-ray interferometry 28.08.2017
28 August 2017
Project A2 together with project C3 Sergey Usenko, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Project A2
Phase-sensitive measurements, central for gaining insight of light-matter interactions, require phase-controlled electric fields. Combining phase-control with short-wavelength laser pulses provides opportunities to trace electron dynamics with unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution. Thanks to a special mirror developed in collaboration between projects A2 and C3 we can control the phase of XUV and soft X-ray pulses from free-electron lasers (FELs) with attosecond precision. This paves the way towards time-domain interferometry in the soft X-ray range, thus increasing the amount of information retrieved from nonlinear optics experiments even at partially coherent FEL sources. Publications