R. Tucoulou et al., HIGH-FREQUENCY ELECTROACOUSTIC CHOPPER FOR SYNCHROTRON-RADIATION, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section B, Beam interactions with materials and atoms, 132(1), 1997, pp. 207-213
The grazing incidence diffraction of an X-ray beam on surface acoustic
waves (SAW) gives rise to diffraction satellites. A new high-frequenc
y chopper for synchrotron radiation is presented here, based on this i
nteraction. The temporal structure of the satellite intensities appear
ing in the diffracted beam can be directly correlated to the temporal
structure of the acoustic waves, By electronic pulsing of the SAW emis
sion and synchronization with the arrival of the synchrotron X-ray pul
ses, it is possible to select the X-ray flashes which will be diffract
ed in the satellites. A selection of 20% of each single X-ray pulse an
d an elimination of 99.7% of the unwanted ones in the hybrid mode of t
he ESRF (repetition frequency similar to 350 kHz) has been achieved. (
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