TY  - JOUR
AU  - Engel, Robin
AU  - Miedema, Piter S.
AU  - Turenne, Diego
AU  - Vaskivskyi, Igor
AU  - Brenner, Günter
AU  - Dziarzhytski, Siarhei
AU  - Kuhlmann, Marion
AU  - Schunck, Jan O.
AU  - Döring, Florian
AU  - Styervoyedov, Andriy
AU  - Parkin, Stuart S. P.
AU  - David, Christian
AU  - Schuessler-Langeheine, Christian
AU  - Duerr, Hermann
AU  - Beye, Martin
TI  - Parallel Broadband Femtosecond Reflection Spectroscopy at a Soft X-Ray Free-Electron Laser
JO  - Applied Sciences
VL  - 10
IS  - 19
SN  - 2076-3417
CY  - Basel
PB  - MDPI
M1  - PUBDB-2020-03739
SP  - 6947
PY  - 2020
AB  - X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) and the directly linked X-ray reflectivity near absorption edges yield a wealth of specific information on the electronic structure around the resonantly addressed element. Observing the dynamic response of complex materials to optical excitations in pump–probe experiments requires high sensitivity to small changes in the spectra which in turn necessitates the brilliance of free electron laser (FEL) pulses. However, due to the fluctuating spectral content of pulses generated by self-amplified spontaneous emission (SASE), FEL experiments often struggle to reach the full sensitivity and time-resolution that FELs can in principle enable. Here, we implement a setup which solves two common challenges in this type of spectroscopy using FELs: First, we achieve a high spectral resolution by using a spectrometer downstream of the sample instead of a monochromator upstream of the sample. Thus, the full FEL bandwidth contributes to the measurement at the same time, and the FEL pulse duration is not elongated by a monochromator. Second, the FEL beam is divided into identical copies by a transmission grating beam splitter so that two spectra from separate spots on the sample (or from the sample and known reference) can be recorded in-parallel with the same spectrometer, enabling a spectrally resolved intensity normalization of pulse fluctuations in pump–probe scenarios. We analyze the capabilities of this setup around the oxygen K- and nickel L-edges recorded with third harmonic radiation of the free electron laser in Hamburg (FLASH), demonstrating the capability for pump–probe measurements with sensitivity to reflectivity changes on the per mill level.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000587186100001
DO  - DOI:10.3390/app10196947
UR  - https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/449355
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