Attosecond shaping of high-current pulsed electron beams in a home-built 37-keV beamline

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Autori principali: Tachibana, Yuichi, Ouillé, Marie, Hosobata, Takuya, Isoshima, Takashi, Takizawa, Yoshiyuki, Yamagata, Yutaka, Morimoto, Yuya
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author Tachibana, Yuichi
Ouillé, Marie
Hosobata, Takuya
Isoshima, Takashi
Takizawa, Yoshiyuki
Yamagata, Yutaka
Morimoto, Yuya
author_facet Tachibana, Yuichi
Ouillé, Marie
Hosobata, Takuya
Isoshima, Takashi
Takizawa, Yoshiyuki
Yamagata, Yutaka
Morimoto, Yuya
contents Ultrashort electron pulses with a high average current provide a powerful means of enhancing time-resolved imaging and photon generation. In this study, we report the attosecond shaping of sub-relativistic electron beams using membranes in a newly developed apparatus that delivers a relatively high current (>2 electrons per pulse on a sample) with negligible space-charge effects. Optimizing the membrane arrangement minimizes the spread of electron-light delays to within a femtosecond over a wide range of incident angles. This enables the recording of attosecond streaking spectrograms, where net acceleration and deceleration, as well as monochromatization and energy broadening, are clearly observed. Through comparison with models, we estimate the durations of the bunched electrons to be 1.3 fs (FWHM) and 0.5 fs (RMS). Furthermore, we demonstrate the attosecond modulation of pulsed beams with a large energy spread originating from space charge effects. A modulation amplitude of 2 eV is shown to be sufficient to shape a beam with an initial spread of 15 eV (FWHM). These results represent a significant step toward the generation of an attosecond pulse containing one or more electrons.
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spellingShingle Attosecond shaping of high-current pulsed electron beams in a home-built 37-keV beamline
Tachibana, Yuichi
Ouillé, Marie
Hosobata, Takuya
Isoshima, Takashi
Takizawa, Yoshiyuki
Yamagata, Yutaka
Morimoto, Yuya
Atomic Physics
Ultrashort electron pulses with a high average current provide a powerful means of enhancing time-resolved imaging and photon generation. In this study, we report the attosecond shaping of sub-relativistic electron beams using membranes in a newly developed apparatus that delivers a relatively high current (>2 electrons per pulse on a sample) with negligible space-charge effects. Optimizing the membrane arrangement minimizes the spread of electron-light delays to within a femtosecond over a wide range of incident angles. This enables the recording of attosecond streaking spectrograms, where net acceleration and deceleration, as well as monochromatization and energy broadening, are clearly observed. Through comparison with models, we estimate the durations of the bunched electrons to be 1.3 fs (FWHM) and 0.5 fs (RMS). Furthermore, we demonstrate the attosecond modulation of pulsed beams with a large energy spread originating from space charge effects. A modulation amplitude of 2 eV is shown to be sufficient to shape a beam with an initial spread of 15 eV (FWHM). These results represent a significant step toward the generation of an attosecond pulse containing one or more electrons.
title Attosecond shaping of high-current pulsed electron beams in a home-built 37-keV beamline
topic Atomic Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.23253