title: Characteristics of focused soft X-ray free-electron laser beam determined by ablation of organic molecular solids.
abstract: A linear accelerator based source of coherent radiation, FLASH (Free-electron LASer in Hamburg) provides ultra-intense femtosecond radiation pulses at wavelengths from the extreme ultraviolet (XUV; lambda<100nm) to the soft X-ray (SXR; lambda<30nm) spectral regions. 25-fs pulses of 32-nm FLASH radiation were used to determine the ablation parameters of PMMA - poly (methyl methacrylate). Under these irradiation conditions the attenuation length and ablation threshold were found to be (56.9+/-7.5) nm and approximately 2 mJ*cm(-2), respectively. For a second wavelength of 21.7 nm, the PMMA ablation was utilized to image the transverse intensity distribution within the focused beam at mum resolution by a method developed here.
authors: Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Na Slovance 2, 182 21 Prague 8, Czech Republic. chal@fzu.cz
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