Ultra-stable and versatile high-energy resolution setup for attosecond photoelectron spectroscopy

Abstract

Attosecond photoelectron spectroscopy is often performed with interferometric experimental setups that require outstanding stability. We demonstrate and characterize in detail an actively stabilized, versatile, high spectral resolution attosecond beamline. The active-stabilization system can remain ultra-stable for several hours with an RMS stability of 13 as and a total pump-probe delay scanning range of \sim 400 fs. A tunable femtosecond laser source to drive high-order harmonic generation allows for precisely addressing atomic and molecular resonances. Furthermore, the interferometer includes a spectral shaper in 4f-geometry in the probe arm as well as a tunable bandpass filter in the pump arm, which offer additional high flexibility in terms of tunability as well as narrowband or polychromatic probe pulses. We show that spectral phase measurements of photoelectron wavepackets with the rainbow RABBIT technique (reconstruction of attosecond beating by two photon transitions) with narrowband probe pulses can significantly improve the photoelectron energy resolution. In this setup, the temporal-spectral resolution of photoelectron spectroscopy can reach a new level of accuracy and precision.