Jan 13 – 15, 2021
Paul Scherrer Institut
Europe/Zurich timezone

Resonance-enhanced XUV-NIR four-wave mixing

Jan 15, 2021, 5:20 PM
20m
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Paul Scherrer Institut

Forschungsstr. 111 CH-5232 Villigen
WavemiX 2021

Speakers

Mr Robin Y. Engel (DESY)Mr Jan Schunck (DESY)

Description

While wave-mixing processes are widely exploited in the IR and optical regime, attempts to mix IR/optical photons and XUV or soft X-ray photons have hitherto been hampered.
A spectroscopy based on sum- and/or difference-frequency generation (SFG/DFG) around soft X-ray or XUV resonances promises, like Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering (RIXS), detailed spectroscopic insights on low-energy excitations within the material of interest, while overcoming the critically low signal levels that constitute the core limitation of RIXS.
We show preliminary results of an experiment at the free-electron laser in Hamburg (FLASH) on lithium fluoride (LiF) observing both SFG and DFG involving one XUV photon around the Li+ 1s-2p resonance (62 eV) and two 800 nm NIR photons in reflection from a LiF single crystal ($\omega =\omega_{XUV} \pm 2 \omega_{IR}$ ). Within the experimental sensitivity, the corresponding processes involving the mixing of only one optical photon with an XUV photon ($\omega =\omega_{XUV} \pm \omega_{IR}$) were not observed.
We observe SFG and DFG during temporal overlap of the XUV and IR laser pulses as well as a strong dependence on the XUV photon energy explainable through the presence of the core level excitonic resonance. To develop an understanding of the wave-mixing process involving NIR and XUV photons, we discuss the role of material resonances and phase matching conditions as well as upcoming experimental efforts to explore them further.

Primary authors

Mr Robin Y. Engel (DESY) Mr Jan Schunck (DESY)

Co-authors

Dr Piter S. Miedema (DESY) Dr Martin C. Borchert (Max-Born-Institut für Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie) Dr Siarhei Dziarzhytski (DESY) Dr Günter Brenner (DESY) Dr Marion Kuhlmann (DESY) Dr Naghita Ekanayake (DESY) Dr Ulrich Eichmann (Max-Born-Institut für Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie) Dr Daniel Schick (Max-Born-Institut für Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie) Dr Clemens von Korff Schmising (Max-Born-Institut für Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie) Dr Stefan Eisebitt (Max-Born-Institut für Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie) Dr Martin Beye (DESY) Dr Horst Rottke (Max-Born-Institut für Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie)

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