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Commissioning of a UV/time-resolved-FTIR beamline at the Duke FEL laboratory

  • M. Shane Hutson
  • , Richard A. Palmer
  • , Ming Shien Chang
  • , Angela Gillikin
  • , Vladimir Litvinenko
  • , Glenn Edwards
  • Duke University

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Abstract

We describe the commissioning of a novel two-color beamline at the Duke Free Electron Laser Laboratory, designed to perform time-resolved FTIR spectroscopy in a pump-probe scheme with sub-nanosecond resolution to measure dynamical processes with durations as long as 10 ns. The UV pump pulses are produced by the tunable (193-700 nm) output of the OK-4 Storage-Ring FEL. The broadband, infrared probe pulses are generated as synchrotron radiation in a bending magnet downstream of the OK-4 wiggler. The repetition rate of the light source (2.79 MHz) is ideal for operating the interferometer in the rapid-scan, asynchronous sampling mode. An investigation of DNA photolyase is proposed.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)560-564
Number of pages5
JournalNuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A
Volume483
Issue number1-2
DOIs
StatePublished - May 1 2002

Keywords

  • Storage-ring FEL
  • Time-resolved FTIR

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