Pump–probe capabilities at the SPB/SFX instrument of the European XFEL
Jayanath Koliyadu, Romain Letrun, Henry Kirkwood, Jia Liu, Man Jiang, Moritz Emons, Richard Bean, Valerio Bellucci, Johan Bielecki, Šarlota Birnšteinová, Raphaël de Wijn, Thomas Dietze, E Juncheng, Jan Grünert, Daniel Kane, Chan Kim, Yoonhee Kim, Max Lederer, Bradley C. Manning, Grant Mills, Luis López Morillo, Nadja Reimers, Dimitrios Rompotis, Adam Round, Marcin Sikorski, Cedric M. S. Takem, Patrik Vagovič, Sandhya Venkatesan, Jinxiong Wang, U. Wegner, Adrian P. Mancuso⋈, Tokushi Sato
Abstract
Pump-probe experiments at X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) facilities are a powerful tool for studying dynamics at ultrafast and longer timescales. Observing the dynamics in diverse scientific cases requires optical laser systems with a wide range of wavelength, flexible pulse sequences and different pulse durations, especially in the pump source. Here, the pump-probe instrumentation available for measurements at the Single Particles, Clusters, and Biomolecules and Serial Femtosecond Crystallography (SPB/SFX) instrument of the European XFEL is reported. The temporal and spatial stability of this instrumentation is also presented.