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Seeded stimulated X-ray emission at 5.9 keV.

Margaret D DoyleAliaksei HalavanauYu ZhangYurina MichineJoshua EvertsFranklin FullerRoberto Alonso-MoriMakina YabashiIChiro InoueTaito OsakaJumpei YamadaYuichi InubushiToru HaraJan KernJunko YanoVittal K YachandraNina RohringerHitoki YonedaThomas KrollClaudio PellegriniUwe Bergmann
Published in: Optica (2023)
X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) provide intense pulses that can generate stimulated X-ray emission, a phenomenon that has been observed and studied in materials ranging from neon to copper. Two schemes have been employed: amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) and seeded stimulated emission (SSE), where a second color XFEL pulse provides the seed. Both phenomena are currently explored for coherent X-ray laser sources and spectroscopy. Here, we report measurements of ASE and SSE of the 5.9 keV Mn K α 1 fluorescence line from a 3.9 molar NaMnO 4 solution, pumped with 7 femtosecond FWHM XFEL pulses at 6.6 keV. We observed ASE at a pump pulse intensity of 1.7 × 10 19 W/cm 2 , consistent with earlier findings. We observed SSE at dramatically reduced pump pulse intensities down to 1.1 × 10 17 W/cm 2 . These intensities are well within the range of many existing XFEL instruments, which supports the experimental feasibility of SSE as a tool to generate coherent X-ray pulses, spectroscopic studies of transition metal complexes, and other applications.
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