Pump-probe capabilities at the SPB/SFX instrument of the European XFEL.
Jayanath C P KoliyaduRomain LetrunHenry J KirkwoodJia LiuMan JiangMoritz EmonsRichard BeanValerio BellucciJohan BieleckiSarlota BirnsteinovaRaphael de WijnThomas DietzeJuncheng EJan GrünertDaniel KaneChan KimYoonhee KimMax LedererBradley ManningGrant MillsLuis L MorilloNadja ReimersDimitrios RompotisAdam R RoundMarcin SikorskiCedric M S TakemPatrik VagovičSandhya VenkatesanJinxiong WangUlrike WegnerAdrian P MancusoTokushi SatoPublished in: Journal of synchrotron radiation (2022)
Pump-probe experiments at X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) facilities are a powerful tool for studying dynamics at ultrafast and longer timescales. Observing the dynamics in diverse scientific cases requires optical laser systems with a wide range of wavelength, flexible pulse sequences and different pulse durations, especially in the pump source. Here, the pump-probe instrumentation available for measurements at the Single Particles, Clusters, and Biomolecules and Serial Femtosecond Crystallography (SPB/SFX) instrument of the European XFEL is reported. The temporal and spatial stability of this instrumentation is also presented.