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SCRIBES
Sensitive Cooled Resolved Ion BEam Spectroscopy
Holger Kreckel,
Andrew Mills, Manori Perera, Brian Siller,
Kyle Crabtree, Carrie Kauffman,
Benjamin J. McCall
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Midwest Astronomy Meeting, Nov 7th 2009
Holger Kreckel / UIUC
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Interstellar Medium: density and temperature
Molecular clouds:
places of stellar birth
temperatures:
density:
10-100 K
102 - 108 cm-3
• no three-body collisions
• no endothermic reactions
• no reactions with barriers
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Molecules in Interstellar Space?
“It is difficult to admit the existence of
molecules in interstellar space because
when once a molecule becomes
dissociated there seems no chance of
the atoms joining up again.”
Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington (1926)
yet ... more than 150 interstellar molecules detected ... and counting
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Ions are key!
- the UMIST database lists 4572 binary reactions,
2386 ion-neutral reactions,
552 charge exchange reactions,
- 2/3 of the reactions are ion-neutral processes,
- 30% of these reactions have been measured.
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Ion
Spectroscopy
Techniques
Hirota, Amano
Maier, Nesbitt
Velocity
Modulation
Hollow
Cathode
Supersonic
Expansion
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Oka, Saykally
High ion column density
Ion-neutral discrimination
Low rotational temperature
Narrow linewidth
Compatible with
cavity-enhanced spectroscopy
Mass spectrometry of laser-probed ions
Spectral identification of ion mass
Sensitive
Cooled
Resolved
Ion
BEam
Spectroscopy
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Why Ion Beam Spectroscopy?
kinematic compression
of the linewidth
Δω ~ 1/√ Ebeam
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SCRIBES setup
detector
supersonic
expansion
source
20 cm
ion beam
cavity
mirrors
Overlap region
beam modulation plates
TOF mass spectrometer
laser light
particle
detector
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Ion sources
Cold cathode
discharge
Cathode
3.5 kV
Extraction plate
Ground
Continuous
Supersonic
Expansion
Anode
7.5 kV
N2 plasma
• simple
• high ion density
• rotationally hot
• new development
• requires heavy pumping
• rotationally cold
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Continuous supersonic expansion source
(K Crabtree, C Kauffman)
O-Rings
3 atm
Pinhole
Gas flow
~300
mtorr
Anode
Cathode
Macor Spacer
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Ion optics
Goal: optimize ion density in the overlap region
ion beam
20 cm
ion
source
Overlap region
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Quadrupole vs. asymmetric cylindrical deflector
Electrostatic quadrupoles are often used as 90o deflectors
-V
+V
Collimated beam
+V
-V
Diverging beam
Output
Input
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Asymmetric cylindrical deflector
R1=140 mm
V1=-740 V
z
y
x
R2=178 mm
V2=+740 V
y
y
x
z
z
z
3 keV ion beam
vacuum chamber
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Ion optics
Goal: optimize ion density in the overlap region
Performance with the
cold cathode source:
ion beam
20 cm
ion
source
Overlap region / 30 cm
ISource = 30 µA
IBeam = 10 µA
IOverlap = 2 µA
(confined by 4mm
apertures,13 cm apart)
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Time of Flight Mass Spectrometer
(M Perera)
Goal: characterize ion beam: composition, energy, energy spread
ion beam
20 cm
ion
source
Overlap region
beam modulation plates
TOF mass spectrometer
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Time of Flight measurements
N+
Beam energy
width
~2ns
Voltage
TOF
energy
spread ~ 2V
N2+
3510V
3560V
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SCRIBES setup
Source
chamber
TOF Mass
spectrometer
Overlap
region
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Spectroscopy: first tests with N2+
cw cavity ringdown spectroscopy (cw-CRDS)
detector
1st bender
Ti:Sa @ 925 nm
Source chamber
Optical Isolator
l-meter
Etalon
Finder
FPI
AOM
apertures
2nd bender
Mode
Matching
Optics
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Concentration Modulation CRDS
•99.99% RD Mirrors
33 ms time constant
amin =4x10-9 cm-1
•Concentration Modulation
Beam on/ Beam off
amin =5x10-10 cm-1
Reduces long term Drift
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CRDS / representative scans N2+
-9
x10 (cm-1)
Absorbance
x10-9
amin=4.5 x 10-10 cm-1
20
1.0
15
0.8
10
0.6
5
0.4
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-5
0.2
-10
924.405
924.406
924.407
924.408
Wavelength (nm)
924.409
924.410
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Next step: velocity modulation
(A Mills, B Siller)
detector
pzt
1st
bender
Source chamber
• Use lower finesse
cavity
• Modulate the velocity
of the ion beam by
applying field to drift
region
PLL
2nd bender
apertures
• Use lock in detection
to further reduce noise
and increase signal
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Future: high resolution infrared spectroscopy
difference frequency generation laser (DFG) 2.8- 4.8 µm
ortho-H3+
para-H3+
Nd:YAG
1064 nm
l/4
l/2
AOM
532 nm
pump
laser
Ti:Sapph
700 – 990 nm
reference
cavity
PPLN
detector
2.8 – 4.8 μm
l/2
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Future: high resolution infrared spectroscopy
Menlo Systems frequency comb
Source: NIST
Source: Menlo Systems
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High resolution Spectroscopy with SCRIBES
Almost all the individual parts are working,
Now we have to bring them all together!
HNN+, HCS+,HOC+,
HCO+, CO+,CH+,
HCNH+, CH5+,
C3H3+, C6H7+
etc, etc ....
Expansion source
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DFG Laser
Frequency
comb
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Acknowledgements
NSF Division of
AMO Physics
Dreyfus New
Faculty Award
NASA Laboratory
Astrophysics
NSF Divisions of
Chemistry & Astronomy
Holger Kreckel, Andrew Mills,
Manori Perera, Brian Siller,
Kyle Crabtree, Carrie Kauffman,
Benjamin J. McCall
University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign
Packard
Fellowship
Air Force Young
Investigator Award
Cottrell
Scholarship
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N+
width
~2ns
energy
spread ~ 2V
N2+
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width
~2ns
energy
spread ~ 2V
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Molecules in Interstellar Space!
currently ~150 molecules
detected by Spectroscopy