Temporal characterization of femtosecond electron pulses inside ultrafast scanning electron microscope
arXiv:2501.10250 · doi:10.1063/5.0258415
Abstract
In this work, we present the implementation of all-optical method for directly measuring electron pulse duration in an ultrafast scanning electron microscope. Our approach is based on the interaction of electrons with the ponderomotive potential of an optical standing wave and provides a precise in situ technique to characterize femtosecond electron pulses at the interaction region across a wide range of electron energies (1-30 keV). By using single-photon photoemission of electrons by ultraviolet femtosecond laser pulses from a Schottky emitter we achieve electron pulse durations ranging from 0.5 ps at 30 keV to 2.7 ps at 5.5 keV under optimal conditions where Coulomb interactions are negligible. Additionally, we demonstrate that reducing the photon energy of the femtosecond pulses used for photoemission from 4.8 eV (257.5 nm) to 2.4 eV (515 nm) decreases the initial energy spread of emitted electrons, leading to significantly shorter pulse durations, particularly at lower electron energies.
arXiv commentv2: AAM; licence: CC BY 4.0; the following article has been accepted by Review of Scientific Instruments; data necessary for replication of results are available in the Zenodo repository at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15573403
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