#  Experiments 

 



## **SCO O K-edge tr-qRIXS beamtime at LCLS (07/2025)**



 

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#### **Left photo:** from left to right, Liangjia Shen and Daniel Jost (SLAC beamline scientists) with Aulden, Tepie, Guan and Sophia at the LCLS qRIXS control room. **Right photo:** Aulden performing changes in the hutch (07/2025).



 

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#### **Left photo:** Sophia, Aulden, and Guan in front of qRIXS instrument. **Right photo:** Aulden, Guan, and Sophia in front of the hutch (07/2025).



 

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## **SCO Cu L3-edge tr-qRIXS beamtime at EuXFEL (11/2024)**



 

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#### Left: Pedro (left) and Aulden's (right) first beamtime at EuXFEL SCS, photo taken inside of hRIXS hutch. Right: Sophia inspects the hRIXS spectrometer (11/2024)



 

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#### Aulden learning how to cleave samples at EuXFEL (11/2024).



 

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#### Furka SwissFEL beamline (10/2023).



 

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#### Successful SLAC LCLS Beamtime (11/2022)! (Hari, Denitsa, Tepie and LCLS ChemRIXS team)



 

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#### Postdocs building a twin three-stage OPA for narrowband mid-infrared generation \[Hari (left), Filippo (right)\] (03/2023).



 

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#### Undergraduate at work! Nicholas Brennan building our NOPA (07/2021).



 

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#### Sophia carefully positioning an iridate sample at BL3 SACLA beamline (07/2022).



 

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#### Progress on the Astrella Laser Table (2021).



 

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#### Denitsa and Matteo in the optics lab (04/2021).