A high-repetition rate scheme for synchrotron-based picosecond laser pump/x-ray probe experiments on chemical and biological systems in solution

Frederico A. Lima; Christopher J. Milne; Chiranthika Dimali Amarasinghe Amarasinghe; Mercedes Hannelore Rittmann-Frank; Renske M. van der Veen; Marco Reinhard; Van-Thai Pham; Susanne Karlsson; Steven L. Johnson; Daniel Grolimund; Camelia Borca; Thomas Huthwelker; Markus Janousch; Frank van Mourik; Rafael Abela; Majed Chergui

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A high-repetition rate scheme for synchrotron-based picosecond laser pump/x-ray probe experiments on chemical and biological systems in solution

Frederico A. Lima^*, Christopher J. Milne, Chiranthika Dimali Amarasinghe Amarasinghe, Mercedes Hannelore Rittmann-Frank, Renske M. van der Veen, Marco Reinhard, Van-Thai Pham, Susanne Karlsson, Steven L. Johnson, Daniel Grolimund, Camelia Borca, Thomas Huthwelker, Markus Janousch, Frank van Mourik, Rafael Abela, Majed Chergui

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School of Physics and Astronomy

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We present the extension of time-resolved optical pump/x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) probe experiments towards data collection at MHz repetition rates. The use of a high-power picosecond laser operating at an integer fraction of the repetition rate of the storage ring allows exploitation of up to two orders of magnitude more x-ray photons than in previous schemes based on the use of kHz lasers. Consequently, we demonstrate an order of magnitude increase in the signal-to-noise of time-resolved XAS of molecular systems in solution. This makes it possible to investigate highly dilute samples at concentrations approaching physiological conditions for biological systems. The simplicity and compactness of the scheme allows for straightforward implementation at any synchrotron beamline and for a wide range of x-ray probe techniques, such as time-resolved diffraction or x-ray emission studies. (C) 2011 American Institute of Physics. [doi:10.1063/1.3600616]

Original language	English
Article number	063111
Number of pages	16
Journal	Review of Scientific Instruments
Volume	82
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3600616
Publication status	Published - Jun 2011

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TRANSIENT ABSORPTION-SPECTROSCOPY
STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS
MOLECULAR-STRUCTURES
CARBON-MONOXIDE
EXCITED-STATE
FINE-STRUCTURE
SPIN-STATE
X-RAYS
MYOGLOBIN
XANES

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Lima, F. A., Milne, C. J., Amarasinghe, C. D. A., Rittmann-Frank, M. H., van der Veen, R. M., Reinhard, M., Pham, V.-T., Karlsson, S., Johnson, S. L., Grolimund, D., Borca, C., Huthwelker, T., Janousch, M., van Mourik, F., Abela, R., & Chergui, M. (2011). A high-repetition rate scheme for synchrotron-based picosecond laser pump/x-ray probe experiments on chemical and biological systems in solution. Review of Scientific Instruments, 82(6), Article 063111. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3600616

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A high-repetition rate scheme for synchrotron-based picosecond laser pump/x-ray probe experiments on chemical and biological systems in solution. / Lima, Frederico A.; Milne, Christopher J.; Amarasinghe, Chiranthika Dimali Amarasinghe et al.
In: Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 82, No. 6, 063111, 06.2011.

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A high-repetition rate scheme for synchrotron-based picosecond laser pump/x-ray probe experiments on chemical and biological systems in solution

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