Abstract
An established technique for the study of structural dynamics at atomic time and length scales is ultrafast X-ray diffraction. Laser-driven table-top hard X-ray source at kHz repetition rate brought this technique to a laboratory scale [1]. The X-ray flux can be maximized by using long wavelength few-cycle pulses with energies of several millijoule which was impressively demonstrated with an 5-µm optical parametric chirped pulse amplifier (OPCPA) driver at 1 kHz recently [2]. For time resolved investigations an X-ray pump-probe line was added to the system. The setup of our midwave-IR-OPCPA-driven Cu-Kα X-ray source is shown in Fig. 1(a). A small part of the 5-µm driver pulses is currently used as pump for the X-ray pump-probe experiments. For the investigation of other samples of interest pump pulses beyond 10 µm are required. Here we report on the extension of the system by adding a single-stage OPCPA delivering high-energy ultrashort idler pulses at 11.2 µm.
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