Table-top high flux femtosecond soft X-ray beamline at the advanced laser light source: New scientific and industrial applications

先进激光光源的桌面高通量飞秒软 X 射线光束线：新的科学和工业应用

• 批准号: 413364-2011
• 负责人: Légaré, François
• 金额: $ 13.16万
• 依托单位: Institut national de la recherche scientifique
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Strategic Projects - Group
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2012-01-01 至 2013-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=515687
• 关键词: Table; top; flux; femtosecond; soft

The discovery of X-rays in 1895 by Dr. William Roentgen has been an important step towards major breakthroughs in the last century. In medicine, this has had a major impact on our society by providing physicians with unique tools for diagnostics and treatments. In scientific research, X-rays are used for spectroscopic and structural characterization of atoms, molecules, biological structures and materials. Today, researchers from a broad diversity of scientific horizons, including biologists, chemists and physicists, are anticipating using X-ray laser pulses to probe dynamical processes with combined high spatial and high temporal resolutions. This quest motivates the construction of X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL) facilities around the world providing femtosecond X-ray laser pulses of high brilliance. The drawback of such facility, on top of its huge financial investment of billion of Euros, is its limited availability thus restraining the number of experiments that can be performed. Using ultrafast laser technology, we propose to develop a table-top high flux X-ray laser beamline at the Canadian Advanced Laser Light Source (ALLS) delivering femtosecond pulses with spectra extending to the kilo-electronvolt photon energy using the process of High Harmonic Generation (HHG). There are a large number of scientific applications for such ultrafast X-ray laser source, with potential for major scientific breakthroughs in Atomic, Molecular and Optical physics, biological and material sciences. In addition, we are collaborating with two Canadian companies, Axis Photonique Inc. and Applied Nanotools Inc., the first manufacturing ultrafast X-ray streak-camera and the second X-ray optical components including reflective gratings and Fresnel Zone Plates. By having access to the unique table-top high flux soft X-ray laser beamline at ALLS, our industrial partners will have an advanced metrology to improve significantly the characterization and optimization procedures of their high value instruments, an advantage that would not be available to their foreign competitors. Therefore, they will be in a unique position of manufacturing competitiveness.

威廉·伦琴博士于 1895 年发现 X 射线，是上世纪重大突破的重要一步。在医学领域，这为医生提供了独特的诊断和治疗工具，对我们的社会产生了重大影响。在科学研究中，X 射线用于原子、分子、生物结构和材料的光谱和结构表征。如今，来自不同科学领域的研究人员，包括生物学家、化学家和物理学家，都期望使用 X 射线激光脉冲来探测具有高空间和高时间分辨率的动态过程。这一追求推动了世界各地 X 射线自由电子激光器 (XFEL) 设施的建设，提供高亮度的飞秒 X 射线激光脉冲。除了数十亿欧元的巨额财务投资之外，这种设施的缺点是其可用性有限，从而限制了可以进行的实验数量。我们建议利用超快激光技术，在加拿大先进激光光源 (ALLS) 上开发桌面高通量 X 射线激光束线，利用高次谐波产生过程，提供光谱扩展到千电子伏光子能量的飞秒脉冲（HHG）。这种超快X射线激光源有大量的科学应用，具有在原子、分子和光学物理、生物和材料科学领域取得重大科学突破的潜力。此外，我们还与两家加拿大公司 Axis Photonique Inc. 和 Applied Nanotools Inc. 合作，第一家制造超快 X 射线条纹相机，第二家制造包括反射光栅和菲涅尔波带板的 X 射线光学组件。通过在 ALLS 获得独特的桌面高通量软 X 射线激光束线，我们的工业合作伙伴将拥有先进的计量技术，可以显着改进其高价值仪器的表征和优化程序，这是其他公司无法获得的优势。他们的外国竞争对手。因此，他们将在制造业竞争力中处于独特的地位。