Photonics (Jan 2015)

Liquid Carbon Reflectivity at 19 nm

  • Riccardo Mincigrucci,
  • Erika Giangrisostomi,
  • Emiliano Principi,
  • Andrea Battistoni,
  • Filippo Bencivenga,
  • Riccardo Cucini,
  • Alessandro Gessini,
  • Maria Grazia Izzo,
  • Claudio Masciovecchio

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics2010050
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 1
pp. 50 – 56

Abstract

Read online

We hereby report on a pump-probe reflectivity experiment conducted on amorphous carbon, using a 780 nm laser as a pump and a 19 nm FEL emission as probe. Measurements were performed at 50 degrees with respect to the surface normal to have an un-pumped reflectivity higher than 0.5%. A sub-10 fs time synchronization error could be obtained exploiting the nearly jitter-free capabilities of FERMI. EUV FEL-based experiments open the way to study the behaviour of a liquid carbon phase being unaffected by plasma screening.

Keywords