A compact streak camera for 150 fs time resolved measurement of bright pulses in ultrafast electron diffraction

Kassier, Gunther Horst; Haupt, K.; Erasmus, N.; Rohwer, E.G.; Von Bergmann, H.M.; Schwoerer, H.; Coelho, Sergio M.M.; Auret, Francois Danie

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A compact streak camera for 150 fs time resolved measurement of bright pulses in ultrafast electron diffraction

Kassier, Gunther Horst; Haupt, K.; Erasmus, N.; Rohwer, E.G.; Von Bergmann, H.M.; Schwoerer, H.; Coelho, Sergio M.M.; Auret, Francois Danie

URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2263/16846

Date: 2010-10

Abstract:

We have developed a compact streak camera suitable for measuring the duration of highly charged subrelativistic femtosecond electron bunches with an energy bandwidth in the order of 0.1%, as frequently used in ultrafast electron diffraction UED experiments for the investigation of ultrafast structural dynamics. The device operates in accumulation mode with 50 fs shot-to-shot timing jitter, and at a 30 keV electron energy, the full width at half maximum temporal resolution is 150 fs. Measured durations of pulses from our UED gun agree well with the predictions from the detailed charged particle trajectory simulations.

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