Commissioning of a multi-beamline femtoslicing facility at SOLEIL
2018
The investigation of ultrafast dynamics, taking place on the few to sub-
picosecondtime scale, is today a very active research area pursued in a variety of scientific domains. With the recent advent of X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs), providing very intense X-ray pulses of duration as short as a few femtoseconds, this research field has gained further momentum. As a consequence, the demand for access strongly exceeds the capacity of the very few XFEL facilities existing worldwide. This situation motivates the development of alternative sub-
picosecondpulsed X-ray sources among which femtoslicing facilities at synchrotron radiation
storage ringsare standing out due to their tunability over an extended
photon energyrange and their high stability. Following the success of the femtoslicing installations at ALS, BESSY-II, SLS and UVSOR, SOLEIL decided to implement a femtoslicing facility. Several challenges were faced, including operation at the highest electron beam energy ever, and achievement of slice separation exclusively with the natural dispersion function of the
storage ring. SOLEIL's setup also enables, for the first time, delivering sub-
picosecondpulses simultaneously to several beamlines. This last feature enlarges the experimental capabilities of the facility, which covers the soft and hard X-ray
photon energyrange. In this paper, the commissioning of this original femtoslicing facility is reported. Furthermore, it is shown that the slicing-induced THz signal can be used to derive a quantitative estimate for the degree of energy exchange between the femtosecond infrared laser pulse and the circulating electron bunch.
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