Linac coherent light source: The first five years

C Bostedt, S Boutet, DM Fritz, Z Huang, HJ Lee… - Reviews of Modern …, 2016 - APS
A new scientific frontier opened in 2009 with the start of operations of the world's first x-ray
free-electron laser (FEL), the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), at SLAC National …

Ultrafast optical spectroscopy of strongly correlated materials and high-temperature superconductors: a non-equilibrium approach

C Giannetti, M Capone, D Fausti, M Fabrizio… - Advances in …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
In the last two decades non-equilibrium spectroscopies have evolved from avant-garde
studies to crucial tools for expanding our understanding of the physics of strongly correlated …

Observation of the fastest chemical processes in the radiolysis of water

ZH Loh, G Doumy, C Arnold, L Kjellsson… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Elementary processes associated with ionization of liquid water provide a framework for
understanding radiation-matter interactions in chemistry and biology. Although numerous …

[HTML][HTML] Mega-electron-volt ultrafast electron diffraction at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

SP Weathersby, G Brown, M Centurion… - Review of Scientific …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
Ultrafast electron probes are powerful tools, complementary to x-ray free-electron lasers,
used to study structural dynamics in material, chemical, and biological sciences. High …

Achieving few-femtosecond time-sorting at hard X-ray free-electron lasers

M Harmand, R Coffee, MR Bionta, M Chollet… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Recently, few-femtosecond pulses have become available at hard X-ray free-electron lasers.
Coupled with the available sub-10 fs optical pulses, investigations into few-femtosecond …

Femtosecond all-optical synchronization of an X-ray free-electron laser

S Schulz, I Grguraš, C Behrens, H Bromberger… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Many advanced applications of X-ray free-electron lasers require pulse durations and time
resolutions of only a few femtoseconds. To generate these pulses and to apply them in time …

Probing ultrafast ππ*/nπ* internal conversion in organic chromophores via K-edge resonant absorption

TJA Wolf, RH Myhre, JP Cryan, S Coriani… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Many photoinduced processes including photosynthesis and human vision happen in
organic molecules and involve coupled femtosecond dynamics of nuclei and electrons …

Large-amplitude spin dynamics driven by a THz pulse in resonance with an electromagnon

T Kubacka, JA Johnson, MC Hoffmann, C Vicario… - Science, 2014 - science.org
Multiferroics have attracted strong interest for potential applications where electric fields
control magnetic order. The ultimate speed of control via magnetoelectric coupling, however …

Short-wavelength free-electron laser sources and science: a review

EA Seddon, JA Clarke, DJ Dunning… - Reports on Progress …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
This review is focused on free-electron lasers (FELs) in the hard to soft x-ray regime. The
aim is to provide newcomers to the area with insights into: the basic physics of FELs, the …

Probing the transition state region in catalytic CO oxidation on Ru

H Öström, H Öberg, H **n, J LaRue, M Beye… - Science, 2015 - science.org
Femtosecond x-ray laser pulses are used to probe the carbon monoxide (CO) oxidation
reaction on ruthenium (Ru) initiated by an optical laser pulse. On a time scale of a few …