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Article

Compression of the Synchrotron Mössbauer X-ray Photon Waveform in an Oscillating Resonant Absorber

by
Ilias R. Khairulin
1,*,
Yevgeny V. Radeonychev
1 and
Olga Kocharovskaya
2
1
Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 46 Ulyanov Street, 603950 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
2
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, 578 University Drive, College Station, TX 77843-4242, USA
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Photonics 2022, 9(11), 829; https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics9110829
Submission received: 14 September 2022 / Revised: 29 October 2022 / Accepted: 31 October 2022 / Published: 4 November 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in X-ray Optics)
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Abstract

A technique to transform the waveform of a 14.4 keV photon (time dependence of the photon detection probability or, equivalently, the intensity of the single-photon wave packet) into a regular sequence of short, nearly bandwidth-limited pulses with a controlled number of pulses is proposed. It is based on coherent forward scattering of single X-ray photons from a synchrotron Mössbauer source (SMS) in an optically thick, vibrating, recoilless 57Fe resonant absorber. The possibility of compressing the waveform of an SMS photon into a single short bell-shaped pulse is predicted. The experiment is proposed for compressing a 100 ns duration 14.4 keV single-photon wave packet produced by SMS at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) into a single bell-shaped pulse of less than 20 ns duration and more than twice the peak intensity. Such single-photon coherent pulses are promising for applications in the fast-developing field of X-ray quantum optics, including possible implementation of quantum memory.
Keywords: X-ray photons; synchrotron Mössbauer source; pulse compression X-ray photons; synchrotron Mössbauer source; pulse compression

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Khairulin, I.R.; Radeonychev, Y.V.; Kocharovskaya, O. Compression of the Synchrotron Mössbauer X-ray Photon Waveform in an Oscillating Resonant Absorber. Photonics 2022, 9, 829. https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics9110829

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Khairulin IR, Radeonychev YV, Kocharovskaya O. Compression of the Synchrotron Mössbauer X-ray Photon Waveform in an Oscillating Resonant Absorber. Photonics. 2022; 9(11):829. https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics9110829

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Khairulin, Ilias R., Yevgeny V. Radeonychev, and Olga Kocharovskaya. 2022. "Compression of the Synchrotron Mössbauer X-ray Photon Waveform in an Oscillating Resonant Absorber" Photonics 9, no. 11: 829. https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics9110829

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Khairulin, I. R., Radeonychev, Y. V., & Kocharovskaya, O. (2022). Compression of the Synchrotron Mössbauer X-ray Photon Waveform in an Oscillating Resonant Absorber. Photonics, 9(11), 829. https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics9110829

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