%0 journal article
%@ 2045-2322
%A Gaudin, J., Fourment, C., Cho, B.I., Engelhorn, K., Galtier, E., Harmand, M., Leguay, P.M, Lee, H.J., Nagler, B., Nakatsutsumi, M., Ozkan, C., Stoermer, M., Toleikis, S., Tschentscher, T., Heimann, P.A., Dorchies, F.

%D 2014
%J Scientific Reports

%P 4724 
%R doi:10.1038/srep04724
%T Towards simultaneous measurements of electronic and structural properties in ultra-fast x-ray free electron laser absorption spectroscopy experiments
%U https://doi.org/10.1038/srep04724
 
%X The rapidly growing ultrafast science with X-ray lasers unveils atomic scale processes with unprecedented time resolution bringing the so called “molecular movie” within reach. X-ray absorption spectroscopy is one of the most powerful x-ray techniques providing both local atomic order and electronic structure when coupled with ad-hoc theory. Collecting absorption spectra within few x-ray pulses is possible only in a dispersive setup. We demonstrate ultrafast time-resolved measurements of the LIII-edge x-ray absorption near-edge spectra of irreversibly laser excited Molybdenum using an average of only few x-ray pulses with a signal to noise ratio limited only by the saturation level of the detector. The simplicity of the experimental set-up makes this technique versatile and applicable for a wide range of pump-probe experiments, particularly in the case of non-reversible processes.