https://doi.org/10.1140/epjs/s11734-022-00752-x
Regular Article
FAB10: a user-oriented bandwidth-tunable extreme ultraviolet lightsource for investigations of femtosecond to attosecond dynamics in gas and condensed phases
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Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, LIDYL, 91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, Trieste, Italy
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Université Paris-Saclay, Institut d’Optique Graduate School, CNRS, Laboratoire Charles Fabry, 91127, Palaiseau, France
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Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, 91405, Orsay, France
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Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d’Orsay, 91405, Orsay, France
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Synchrotron SOLEIL, BP 48, L’Orme des Merisiers, 91192, Gif sur Yvette Cedex, France
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Laboratoire de Physique des Matériaux et Surfaces, CY Cergy Paris Université, 95031, Cergy-Pontoise, France
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CEMES-CNRS, Université de Toulouse, 29 rue Jeanne Marvig, 31055, Toulouse, France
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david.bresteau@cea.fr
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thierry.ruchon@cea.fr
Received:
13
May
2022
Accepted:
3
December
2022
Published online:
4
January
2023
We present the commissioning of the FAB10 beamline (Femtosecond to Attosecond Beamline at 10 kHz repetition rate) that has been developped and operated in the last few years at the ATTOLab facility of Paris-Saclay University. Based on the high harmonic generation process, the beamline is dedicated to investigations of ultrafast dynamics in a broad variety of systems ranging from gas phase to condensed matter in pump-probe arrangements. Its design and operation has been strongly influenced by both the laser and the large scale instruments communities, which makes it unique in several aspects. In particular, it is possible to tune the extreme ultraviolet (XUV, 10–100 eV) bandwidth from 0.2 to 20 eV – with corresponding pulse duration from 30 to 0.3 femtoseconds (fs) – thanks to an original and fully automated XUV spectral filter with three operation modes. After a general overview of the beamline features, each of those operation modes is described, characterized and illustrated with commissioning experiments.
Ultrafast Phenomena from attosecond to picosecond timescales: theory and experiments. Guest editors: Franck Lépine, Lionel Poisson.
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