Speckle correlation as a monitor of X-ray freeelectron laser induced crystal lattice deformation

Rajan Plumley, Yanwen Sun, Samuel Teitelbaum, Sanghoon Song, Takahiro Sato, Matthieu Chollet, Silke Nelson, Nan Wang, Peihao Sun, Aymeric Robert, Paul Fuoss, Mark Sutton, Diling Zhu

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Abstract

X-ray free-electron lasers (X-FELs) present new opportunities to study ultrafast lattice dynamics in complex materials. While the unprecedented source brilliance enables high fidelity measurement of structural dynamics, it also raises experimental challenges related to the understanding and control of beam-induced irreversible structural changes in samples that can ultimately impact the interpretation of experimental results. This is also important for designing reliable high performance X-ray optical components. In this work, X-FEL beam-induced lattice alterations are investigated by measuring the shot-To-shot evolution of near-Bragg coherent scattering from a single crystalline germanium sample. It is shown that X-ray photon correlation analysis of sequential speckle patterns measurements can be used to monitor the nature and extent of lattice rearrangements. Abrupt, irreversible changes are observed following intermittent high-fluence monochromatic X-ray pulses, thus revealing the existence of a threshold response to X-FEL pulse intensity.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1470-1476
Number of pages7
JournalJournal of synchrotron radiation
Volume27
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 1 2020
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • X-ray
  • damage
  • free-electron laser
  • two-Time correlation function

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Radiation
  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics
  • Instrumentation

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