Attosecond electron pulse trains and applications to time-resolved diffraction and microscopy

Yuya Morimoto; Peter Baum

doi:10.1117/12.2314737

21 May 2018 Attosecond electron pulse trains and applications to time-resolved diffraction and microscopy

Yuya Morimoto, Peter Baum

Proceedings Volume 10673, Advances in Ultrafast Condensed Phase Physics; 106730P (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2314737
Event: SPIE Photonics Europe, 2018, Strasbourg, France

Abstract

Attosecond spectroscopy with laser-generated photons can in principle resolve electronic processes in real time, but a movie-like space–time imaging is impeded by the wavelength, which is ~100 times longer than atomic distances. Here we advance attosecond science to sub-atomic spatial resolution by using sub-relativistic electron beams instead of the high-harmonic photons. A beam of 70-keV electrons at 4.5-pm de Broglie wavelength is temporally modulated by the electric field of laser cycles into a train of attosecond pulses with the help of a dielectric modulation element. The pulses in the train have 820-as duration and maintain the degree of coherence of the original electron beam. We demonstrate the feasibility of analytic attosecond–Angstrom imaging by recording time-resolved Bragg diffraction from a singlecrystalline silicon. Real-space electron microscopy with the attosecond electron pulses visualizes the propagation of optical waves at a dielectric membrane with sub-wavelength and sub-optical-cycle resolution. This unification of attosecond science with electron diffraction/microscopy will enable the direct visualization of fundamental and complex light-matter interaction in space and time.

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Yuya Morimoto and Peter Baum "Attosecond electron pulse trains and applications to time-resolved diffraction and microscopy", Proc. SPIE 10673, Advances in Ultrafast Condensed Phase Physics, 106730P (21 May 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2314737

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