Curriculum Vitae Dr. Ryan N. Coffee March 3, 2015 Contact Information The Linac Coherent Light Source SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory 2575 Sand Hill Road, Mail Stop 102 Menlo Park, California 94025 Mobile: 650.387.0981 Office: 650.926.4608 Fax: 650.926.4695 e-mail: coffee@slac.stanford.edu Research Interest Optical and Free Electron Laser pulse shaping for variational data acquisition and analysis techniques Multidimensional x-ray and optical spectroscopies Ultrafast x-ray and uv-vis laser systems Photo-triggered chemical science Ultrafast material response to uv/x-ray excitation Professional Interest Merging experimantal design, data acquisition, and advanced computing Cross-disciplinary team building Launching the next generation of x-ray, optical, and computer scientists Education Doctorate of Philosophy, Physics, University of Connecticut May 30, 2006 Dr. George N. Gibson, Dissertation Advisor Dissertation: Ion time-of-flight and vacuum ultra-violet fluorescence spectroscopy of highly ionized N2 . Master of Science, Physics, University of Connecticut December 2001 Bachelor of Science, Physics, University of Arkansas August 1999 Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy, University of Arkansas August 1999 Societies and Honors American Physical Society, Junior member American Physical Society, Student member Doctoral Fellowship Award, University of Connecticut 2008 – present 1998 – 2006 June 2005 2 Research Staff Scientist, The Linac Coherent Light Source April 2009 – present SLAC National Accelerator Lab Drs. William E. White, Alan Fry and Joe Robinson, Supervisors Research Associate, The Stanford PULSE Institute SLAC National Accelerator Lab May 2006 – March 2009 Dr. Philip H. Bucksbaum, Supervisor Research Associate, Sub-picosecond Photon Source SLAC National Accelerator Lab January 2006 – March 2006 Dr. Philip H. Bucksbaum, Supervisor Graduate Research Assistant, High Intensity Laser Lab August 2000 – April 2006 University of Connecticut Dr. George N. Gibson, Dissertation Advisor Graduate Research Assistant, Laser Cooling Lab University of Connecticut January 2000 – August 2000 Dr. Phil Gould, Supervisor Undergraduate Research Assistant, Magnetic Materials Lab University of Arkansas Undergraduate Research Assistant, Physics Education University of Arkansas Consulting Technical Consultant Leap Motion, Inc. April 1999 – August 1999 Dr. Mark Filipkowski, Supervisor January 1999 - April 1999 Dr. Gay Stewart, Academic Advisor October 2013 – January 2014 Dr. Gabriel Hare, Supervisor Management/Teaching Manager for lasers in the AMO Science at LCLS July 2009-present Lead Scientist for design of LCLS x-ray/optical timing system June – August 2013 Current students/post-docs: Nick Hartmann, graduate student Markus Ilchen, Ewald post-doc fellow Univ. Bern SLAC/XFEL-DESY Past students/post-docs: Wolfram Helml, Marie-Curie post-doc fellow Anton Lindahl, Walleberg post-doc fellow Shaughnessy Brown, intern Galen Harrison, intern Mina Bionta, intern Doug French, graduate student Current positions Research Scientist, Techniche Univeritat Munchen Lecturer, Univ. of Gothenberg student, Stanford student Reed College Graduate Student, Univ. Toulouse Nuclear Engineer 3 Mike Glownia, graduate student James Cryan, graduate student LCLS/SLAC Staff Scientist PULSE Institute Staff Scientist Teaching Assistant, Physics of Music, Lab University of Connecticut Teaching Assistant, Introductory Physics, Lab University of Connecticut Fall 2000 & 2001 Semesters Fall 1999 & Spring 2000 Semesters Successful LCLS Beamtime Proposals co-author/PI, Multi-dimensional x-ray spectroscopy of O2 eliminatin from CO2 Status: Awarded beamtime April 2015 co-author/co-PI, Angle-resolved streaking for attosecond FEL sub-pulse characterization Status: Awarded beamtime March 2015 author/PI, Optical control for multi-dimensional molecular spectroscopy Status: Successfully completed December 2014 author/co-PI, Characterization of the FEL pulse sub-structure in the time domain Status: Successfully completed June 2014 author/PI, Two-color resonant two-photon x-ray absorption in O2 Status: Successfully completed March 2013 author/PI, Spectrogram x-ray/optical cross-correlation: deconvolving carrier dynamics for pulse shape retrieval Status: Successfully completed February 2013 co-author/co-PI, Ultrafast imaging and control of non-radiative molecular dynamics. Status: Successfully completed March 2012 author/PI, Time-domain measurements of Auger relaxation and x-ray bleaching in O2 . Status: Successfully completed November 2011 author/co-PI, Xray Multiple Ionization of Impulsively Aligned Molecules. Status: Successfully completed October 2009 Funding Proposals author, Early Career: Understanding Chemical Function with an Integrated Multi-Disciplinary Approach, a $2.5M, 5 year single investigator proposal to DOE Status: In review author, Spectral Phase Measurement and Control for FEL seeding, a ∼$500K LDRD proposal to SLAC 4 National Accelerator Lab Status: Highly ranked author/PI, Experimental soft x-ray/laser timing, a ∼$500K R&D proposal to the LCLS Directorate at the SLAC National Accelerator Lab Status: Resulted in the stardard x-ray/optical timing diagnostic at LCLS and other facilities Co-author, Ultrafast x-ray interactions with atoms and molecules, a ∼$1M sub-task of The PULSE Institute proposal to DOE Status: Recieved funding FY2010 – FY2012. Service Internal review member, Photon Control and Data Systems SLAC National Accelerator Lab February 2014 Discussion Panel Member, 8th Annual DOE Laser Safety Officer Workshop SLAC National Accelerator Lab September 2012 Timing Consultant, XFEL-Small Quantum Systems, Technical Design Review September 2012 Invited discussion member, NGLS-AMO science workshop Berkeley National Lab August 2012 Manager & SLSO, LCLS AMO Experimental Hutch Laser Facility SLAC National Accelerator Lab July 2009 – present Manager & SLSO, LCLS SXR Experimental Hutch Laser Facility SLAC National Accelerator Lab July 2009 – January 2011 Manager, LCLS Near Experimental Hall Laser Facility SLAC National Accelerator Lab July 2009 – October 2009 Member, X-ray focusing lens, Final Design Review Panel SLAC National Accelerator Lab June 2009 Member, Harmonic Rejection Mirror, Preliminary Design Review Panel SLAC National Accelerator Lab June 2009 Member, Magnetic Bottle Spectrometer Review Panel SLAC National Accelerator Lab March 2009 Section Leader, PULSE Renewal Workshop: Strong-Field Quantum Dynamics PULSE Institute, SLAC National Accelerator Lab Co-Chair, Soft X-ray Workgroup December 2008 February 2008 – August 2008 5 PULSE Institute, SLAC National Accelerator Lab Laser Safety Committee SLAC National Accelerator Lab Chair, X-ray Pump Probe End-station Review Panel SLAC National Accelerator Lab Member, LCLS Laser Systems Engineering Review Panel SLAC National Accelerator Lab System Laser Safety Officer Bucksbaum Lab – The PULSE Institute April 2007 – June 2010 January 2007 November 2007 October 2006 – January 2010 Machine Shop Committee University of Connecticut August 2003 – August 2005 Honors Thesis Committee Bates College April 2004 Graduate Seminar Series Committee University of Connecticut Physics Department Space Committee University of Connecticut September 2003 – June 2004 August 1999 – August 2003 Publications 1. Measuring the temporal structure of few-femtosecond free-electron laser X-ray pulses directly in the time domain Wolfram Helml, AR Maier, W Schweinberger, I Grgura, P Radcliffe, G Doumy, C Roedig, Justin Gagnon, M Messerschmidt, S Schorb, C Bostedt, Florian Grner, LF DiMauro, D Cubaynes, JD Bozek, Th Tschentscher, JT Costello, M Meyer, R Coffee, S Dsterer, AL Cavalieri, Reinhard Kienberger Nat. Photon. 8 950 (2014) 2. Sub-femtosecond precision measurement of relative X-ray arrival time for free-electron lasers N Hartmann, W Helml, A Galler, MR Bionta, J Grnert, SL Molodtsov, KR Ferguson, S Schorb, ML Swiggers, S Carron, C Bostedt, J-C Castagna, J Bozek, JM Glownia, DJ Kane, AR Fry, WE White, CP Hauri, T Feurer, RN Coffee Nat. Photon. 8 706 (2014) 3. Spectral encoding method for measuring the relative arrival time between x-ray/optical pulses MR Bionta, N Hartmann, M Weaver, D French, DJ Nicholson, JP Cryan, JM Glownia, K Baker, C Bostedt, M Chollet, Y Ding, DM Fritz, AR Fry, DJ Kane, J Krzywinski, HT Lemke, M Messerschmidt, S Schorb, D Zhu, WE White, RN Coffee Rev. Sci. Instrum. 85 083116 (2014) 6 4. Imaging charge transfer in iodomethane upon x-ray photoabsorption Benjamin Erk, Rebecca Boll, Sebastian Trippel, Denis Anielski, Lutz Foucar, Benedikt Rudek, Sascha W Epp, Ryan Coffee, Sebastian Carron, Sebastian Schorb, Ken R Ferguson, Michele Swiggers, John D Bozek, Marc Simon, Tatiana Marchenko, Jochen Kpper, Ilme Schlichting, Joachim Ullrich, Christoph Bostedt, Daniel Rolles, Artem Rudenko Science 345 288 (2014) 5. Femtosecond x-ray photoelectron diffraction on gas-phase dibromobenzene molecules Daniel Rolles, R Boll, M Adolph, A Aquila, C Bostedt, JD Bozek, HN Chapman, R Coffee, N Coppola, P Decleva, T Delmas, SW Epp, B Erk, Frank Filsinger, L Foucar, L Gumprecht, A Hmke, T Gorkhover, L Holmegaard, Per Johnsson, Ch Kaiser, Faton Krasniqi, KU Khnel, J Maurer, M Messerschmidt, R Moshammer, Wilson Quevedo, Ivan Rajkovic, A Rouze, B Rudek, Ilme Schlichting, C Schmidt, S Schorb, CD Schrter, J Schulz, H Stapelfeldt, M Stener, S Stern, Simone Techert, J Thgersen, MJJ Vrakking, A Rudenko, Jochen Kpper, J Ullrich J. Phys. B: At. Mol. and Opt. Phys. 47 124035 (2014) 6. X-ray diffraction from isolated and strongly aligned gas-phase molecules with a freeelectron laser Jochen Kpper, Stephan Stern, Lotte Holmegaard, Frank Filsinger, Arnaud Rouze, Artem Rudenko, Per Johnsson, Andrew V Martin, Marcus Adolph, Andrew Aquila, Saa Bajt, Anton Barty, Christoph Bostedt, John Bozek, Carl Caleman, Ryan Coffee, Nicola Coppola, Tjark Delmas, Sascha Epp, Benjamin Erk, Lutz Foucar, Tais Gorkhover, Lars Gumprecht, Andreas Hartmann, Robert Hartmann, Gnter Hauser, Peter Holl, Andre Hmke, Nils Kimmel, Faton Krasniqi, Kai-Uwe Khnel, Jochen Maurer, Marc Messerschmidt, Robert Moshammer, Christian Reich, Benedikt Rudek, Robin Santra, Ilme Schlichting, Carlo Schmidt, Sebastian Schorb, Joachim Schulz, Heike Soltau, John CH Spence, Dmitri Starodub, Lothar Strder, Jan Thgersen, Marc JJ Vrakking, Georg Weidenspointner, Thomas A White, Cornelia Wunderer, Gerard Meijer, Joachim Ullrich, Henrik Stapelfeldt, Daniel Rolles, Henry N Chapman Phys. Rev. Lett. 112 083002 (2014) 7. Imaging molecular structure through femtosecond photoelectron diffraction on aligned and oriented gas-phase molecules Rebecca Boll, Arnaud Rouzée, Marcus Adolph, Denis Anielski, Andrew Aquila, Sadia Bari, Cédric Bomme, Christoph Bostedt, John D Bozek, Henry N Chapman, Lauge Christensen, Ryan Coffee, Niccola Coppola, Sankar De, Piero Decleva, Sascha W Epp, Benjamin Erk, Frank Filsinger, Lutz Foucar, Tais Gorkhover, Lars Gumprecht, André Hömke, Lotte Holmegaard, Per Johnsson, Jens S Kienitz, Thomas Kierspel, Faton Krasniqi, Kai-Uwe Kühnel, Jochen Maurer, Marc Messerschmidt, Robert Moshammer, Nele LM Mller, Benedikt Rudek, Evgeny Savelyev, Ilme Schlichting, Carlo Schmidt, Frank Scholz, Sebastian Schorb, Joachim Schulz, Jörn Seltmann, Mauro Stener, Stephan Stern, Simone Techert, Jan Thgersen, Sebastian Trippel, Jens Viefhaus, Marc Vrakking, Henrik Stapelfeldt, Jochen Küpper, Joachim Ullrich, Artem Rudenko, Daniel Rolles Faraday discussions 171 57 (2014) 8. Toward atomic resolution diffractive imaging of isolated molecules with X-ray freeelectron lasers Stephan Stern, Lotte Holmegaard, Frank Filsinger, Arnaud Rouzée, Artem Rudenko, Per Johnsson, Andrew V Martin, Anton Barty, Christoph Bostedt, J Bozek, R Coffee, Sascha Epp, 7 Benjamin Erk, Lutz Foucar, Robert Hartmann, Nils Kimmel, Kai-Uwe Khnel, Jochen Maurer, Marc Messerschmidt, Benedikt Rudek, D Starodub, Jan Thøgersen, Georg Weidenspointner, Thomas A White, Henrik Stapelfeldt, Daniel Rolles, Henry N Chapman, Jochen Küpper Faraday discussions 171 393 (2014) 9. Femtosecond photoelectron diffraction on laser-aligned molecules: Towards time-resolved imaging of molecular structure R Boll, D Anielski, C Bostedt, JD Bozek, Lauge Christensen, R Coffee, S De, P Decleva, SW Epp, B Erk, L Foucar, F Krasniqi, J Kpper, A Rouze, B Rudek, A Rudenko, S Schorb, H Stapelfeldt, M Stener, S Stern, S Techert, S Trippel, MJJ Vrakking, J Ullrich, D Rolles Phys. Rev. A 88 061402 (2013) 10. Multicolor operation and spectral control in a gain-modulated x-ray free-electron laser A Marinelli, AA Lutman, J Wu, Y Ding, J Krzywinski, H-D Nuhn, Y Feng, RN Coffee, C Pellegrini Phys. Rev. Lett. 111 134801 (2013) 11. Ultra-fast and ultra-intense x-ray sciences: first results from the Linac Coherent Light Source free-electron laser C Bostedt, JD Bozek, PH Bucksbaum, RN Coffee, JB Hastings, Z Huang, RW Lee, S Schorb, JN Corlett, P Denes, P Emma, RW Falcone, RW Schoenlein, G Doumy, EP Kanter, B Kraessig, S Southworth, L Young, L Fang, M Hoener, N Berrah, C Roedig, LF DiMauro J. Phys. B 46 164003 (2013) 12. Using covariance mapping to investigate the dynamics of multi-photon ionization processes of Ne atoms exposed to X-FEL pulses V Zhaunerchyk, M Mucke, P Saln, P vd Meulen, M Kaminska, RJ Squibb, LJ Frasinski, M Siano, JHD Eland, P Linusson, RD Thomas, M Larsson, L Foucar, J Ullrich, K Motomura, S Mondal, K Ueda, T Osipov, L Fang, BF Murphy, N Berrah, C Bostedt, JD Bozek, S Schorb, M Messerschmidt, JM Glownia, JP Cryan, RN Coffee, O Takahashi, S Wada, MN Piancastelli, R Richter, KC Prince, R Feifel J. Phys. B 46 164034 (2013) 13. Dynamics of Hollow Atom Formation in Intense X-Ray Pulses Probed by Partial Covariance Mapping LJ Frasinski, Vitali Zhaunerchyk, Melanie Mucke, Richard J Squibb, M Siano, John HD Eland, Per Linusson, P vd Meulen, P Saln, RD Thomas, Mats Larsson, L Foucar, J Ullrich, K Motomura, S Mondal, K Ueda, T Osipov, L Fang, BF Murphy, N Berrah, C Bostedt, JD Bozek, S Schorb, M Messerschmidt, JM Glownia, JP Cryan, RN Coffee, O Takahashi, S Wada, MN Piancastelli, R Richter, KC Prince, R Feifel Phys. Rev. Lett. 111 073002 (2013) 14. Selective Ultrafast Probing of Transient Hot Chemisorbed and Precursor States of CO on Ru(0001) M. Beye, T. Anniyev, R. Coffee, M. DellAngela, A. Fohlisch, J. Gladh, T. Katayama, S. Kaya, O. Krupin, A. Mgelhj, A. Nilsson, D. Nordlund, J. K. Nørskov, H. Oberg, H. Ogasawara, L. G. M. Pettersson, W. F. Schlotter, J. A. Sellberg, F. Sorgenfrei, J. J. Turner, M. Wolf, W. Wurth, and H. Ostrom Phys. Rev. Lett. 110 186101 (2013) 15. Ultrafast soft x-ray emission spectroscopy of surface adsorbates using an x-ray free electron laser 8 T Katayama, T Anniyev, M Beye, R Coffee, M DellAngela, A Fhlisch, J Gladh, S Kaya, O Krupin, A Nilsson, D Nordlund, WF Schlotter, JA Sellberg, F Sorgenfrei, JJ Turner, W Wurth, H strm, H Ogasawara JESRP 187 9 (2013) 16. Experimental Demonstration of Femtosecond Two-Color X-Ray Free-Electron Lasers A.A. Lutman, R. Coffee, Y. Ding, Z. Huang, J. Krzywinski, T. Maxwell, M. Messerschmidt, and H.-D. Nuhn Phys. Rev. Lett. 110 134801 (2013) 17. Nanoscale spin reversal by nonlocal angular momentum transfer following ultrafast laser excitation in ferrimagnetic GdFeCo C.E. Graves, A.H. Reid, T. Wang, B. Wu, S. de Jong, K. Vahaplar, I. Radu, D.P. Bernstein, M. Messerschmidt, L. Müller, R. Coffee, M. Bionta, S.W. Epp, R. Hartmann, N. Kimmel, G. Hauser, A. Hartmann, P. Holl, H. Gorke, J. H. Mentink, A. Tsukamoto, A. Fognini, J.J. Turner, W.F. Schlotter, D. Rolles, H. Soltau, L. Strüder, Y. Acremann, A.V. Kimel, A. Kirilyuk, Th. Rasing, J. Stöhr, A.O. Scherz, H.A. Dürr Nature Materials 12 203 (2013) 18. Real-Time Observation of Surface Bond Breaking with an X-ray Laser M. DellAngela, T. Anniyev, M. Beye, R. Coffee, A. Föhlisch, J. Gladh, T. Katayama, S. Kaya, O. Krupin, J. LaRue, A. Møgelhøj, D. Nordlund, J. K. Nørskov, H. Öberg, H. Ogasawara, H. Öström, L. G. M. Pettersson, W. F. Schlotter, J. A. Sellberg, F. Sorgenfrei, J. J. Turner, M. Wolf, W. Wurth, A. Nilsson Science 339 1302 (2013) 19. Resonance-enhanced multiple ionization of krypton at an x-ray free-electron laser Benedikt Rudek, Daniel Rolles, Sang-Kil Son, Lutz Foucar, Benjamin Erk, Sascha Epp, Rebecca Boll, Denis Anielski, Christoph Bostedt, Sebastian Schorb, Ryan Coffee, John Bozek, Sebastian Trippel, Tatiana Marchenko, Marc Simon, Lauge Christensen, Sankar De, Shin-ichi Wada, Kiyoshi Ueda, Ilme Schlichting, Robin Santra, Joachim Ullrich, Artem Rudenko Phys. Rev. A 87 023413 (2013) 20. Achieving few-femtosecond time-sorting at hard X-ray free-electron lasers M. Harmand, R. Coffee, M. R. Bionta, M. Chollet, D. French, D. Zhu, D. M. Fritz, H. T. Lemke, N. Medvedev, B. Ziaja, S. Toleikis and M. Cammarata Nature Photonics 7 215 (2013) 21. X-ray and optical wave mixing T. E. Glover, D. M. Fritz, M. Cammarata, T. K. Allison, Sinisa Coh, J. M. Feldkamp, H. Lemke, D. Zhu, Y. Feng, R. N. Coffee, M. Fuchs, S. Ghimire, J. Chen, S. Shwartz, D. A. Reis, S. E. Harris & J. B. Hastings Nature 488, 603608 (2012) 22. Transient X-Ray Fragmentation: Probing a Prototypical Photoinduced Ring Opening VS Petrovic, M Siano, JL White, N Berrah, C Bostedt, JD Bozek, D Broege, M Chalfin, RN Coffee, J Cryan, L Fang, JP Farrell, LJ Frasinski, JM Glownia, M Guhr, M Hoener, DMP Holland, J Kim, JP Marangos, T Martinez, BK McFarland, RS Minns, S Miyabe, S Schorb, RJ Sension, LS Spector, R Squibb, Hongli Tao, JG Underwood, and PH Bucksbaum. 9 Phys. Rev. Lett. 108 253006 (2012) 23. X-ray Parametric Down-Conversion in the Langevin Regime S. Shwartz, R. N. Coffee, J. M. Feldkamp, Y. Feng, J. B. Hastings, G. Y. Yin, and S. E. Harris Phys. Rev. Lett. 109 013602 (2012) 24. Size-Dependent Ultrafast Ionization Dynamics of Nanoscale Samples in Intense Femtosecond X-Ray Free-Electron-Laser Pulses Sebastian Schorb, Daniela Rupp, Michelle L. Swiggers, Ryan N. Coffee, Marc Messerschmidt, Garth Williams, John D. Bozek, Shin-Ichi Wada, Oleg Kornilov, Thomas Moller, and Christoph Bostedt Phys. Rev. Lett. 108 233401 (2012) 25. Ultrafast absorption of intense x rays by nitrogen molecules C Buth, JC Liu, MH Chen, JP Cryan, L Fang, JM Glownia, M Hoener, RN Coffee, N Berrah J. Chem. Phys. 136 214310 (2012) 26. X-rayoptical cross-correlator for gas-phase experiments at the Linac Coherent Light Source freeelectron laser S. Schorb, T. Gorkhover, J. P. Cryan, J. M. Glownia, M. R. Bionta, R. N. Coffee, B. Erk, R. Boll, C. Schmidt, D. Rolles, A. Rudenko, A. Rouzee, M. Swiggers, S. Carron, J.-C. Castagna, J. D. Bozek, M. Messerschmidt, W. F. Schlotter, and C. Bostedt App. Phys. Lett. 100 121107 (2012) 27. X-ray pulse preserving single-shot optical cross-correlation method for improved experimental temporal resolution M. Beye, O. Krupin, G. Hays, A. H. Reid, D. Rupp, S. de Jong, S. Lee, W.-S. Lee, Y.-D. Chuang, R. Coffee, J. P. Cryan, J. M. Glownia, A. Föhlisch, M. R. Holmes, A. R. Fry, W. E. White, C. Bostedt, A. O. Scherz, H. A. Dürr, and W. F. Schlotter App. Phys. Lett. 100 121108 (2012) 28. The soft x-ray instrument for materials studies at the linac coherent light source x-ray free-electron laser WF Schlotter, JJ Turner, M Rowen, P Heimann, M Holmes, O Krupin, M Messerschmidt, S Moeller, J Krzywinski, R Soufli, M Fernandez-Perea, N Kelez, S Lee, R Coffee, G Hays, M Beye, N Gerken, F Sorgenfrei, S Hau-Riege, L Juha, J Chalupsky, V Hajkova, AP Mancuso, A Singer, O Yefanov, IA Vartanyants, G Cadenazzi, B Abbey, KA Nugent, H Sinn, J Luning, S Schaffert, S Eisebitt, WS Lee, A Scherz, AR Nilsson, and W Wurth Rev. Sci. Instrum. 83 043107 (2012) 29. Molecular frame Auger electron energy spectrum from N2 James Cryan, J. Glownia, J. Anreasson, A. Belkacem, N. Berrah, C. I. Blaga, C. Bostedt, J. Bozek, C. Buth, N. Cherepkov, L. F. DiMauro, L. Fang, O. Gessner, M. Guehr, J. Hajdu, M. P. Hertlein, M. Hoener, O. Kornilov, J. P. Marangos, A. M. March, B. K. McFarland, H. Merdji, V. Petrovic, C. Raman, D. Ray, D. Reis, S. Semenov, F. Tarantelli, M. Trigo, J. White, W. White, L. Young, P. H. Bucksbaum, R. N. Coffee J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 45 055601 (2012) 30. Angle-resolved electron spectroscopy of laser-assisted Auger decay induced by a few-femtosecond x-ray pulse M. Meyer, P. Radcliffe, T. Tschentscher, J. T. Costello, A. Cavalieri, I. Grguras, A. R. 10 Maier, R. Kienberger, J. Bozek, C. Bostedt, S. Schorb, R. Coffee, M. Messerschmidt, C. Roedig, E. Sistrunk, L. F. DiMauro, G. Doumy, K. Ueda, S. Wada, S. Düsterer, M. Vrakking, A. K. Kazansky, N. M. Kabachnik Phys. Rev. Lett. 108 063007 (2012) 31. Direct time domain measurement of the world’s shortest X-ray pulses W. Helml, A. R. Maier, W. Schweinberger, I. Grguras, P. Radcliff, G. Doumy, C. Roedig, J. Gagnon, M. Messerschmidt, F. Grüner, J. D. Bozek, T. Tschentscher, J. T. Costello, M. Meyer, R. Coffee, S. Düsterer, A. L. Cavalieri, and R. Kienberger In preparation, 2012 32. Self-terminating diffraction gates femtosecond X-ray nanocrystallography measurements Anton Barty, Carl Caleman, Andrew Aquila, Nicusor Timneanu, Lukas Lomb, Thomas A. White, Jakob Andreasson, David Arnlund, Saša Bajt, Thomas R.M. Barends, Miriam Barthelmess, Michael J. Bogan, Christoph Bostedt, John D. Bozek, Ryan Coffee, Nicola Coppola, Jan Davidsson, Daniel P. DePonte, R. Bruce Doak, Tomas Ekeberg, Veit Elser, Sascha W. Epp, Benjamin Erk, Holger Fleckenstein, Lutz Foucar, Petra Fromme, Heinz Graafsma, Lars Gumprecht, Janos Hajdu, Christina Y. Hampton, Robert Hartmann, Andreas Hartmann, Günter Hauser, Helmut Hirsemann, Peter Holl, Mark S. Hunter, Linda Johansson, Stephan Kassemeyer, Nils Kimmel, Richard A. Kirian, Mengning Liang, Filipe R.N.C. Maia, Erik Malmerberg, Stefano Marchesini, Andrew V. Martin, Karol Nass, Richard Neutze, Christian Reich, Daniel Rolles, Benedikt Rudek, Artem Rudenko, Howard Scott, Ilme Schlichting, Joachim Schulz, M. Marvin Seibert, Robert L. Shoeman, Raymond Sierra, Heike Soltau, John C. H. Spence, Francesco Stellato, Stephan Stern, Lothar Strüder, Joachim Ullrich, X. Wang, Georg Weidenspointner, Uwe Weierstall, Cornelia B. Wunderer, and Henry N. Chapman Nature Photonics, textbf6 35 (2011) 33. Radiation damage in protein serial femtosecond crystallography using an X-ray free-electron laser Lukas Lomb, Thomas R.M. Barends, Stephan Kassemeyer, Andrew Aquila, Sascha W. Epp, Benjamin Erk, Lutz Foucar, Robert Hartmann, Benedikt Rudek, Daniel Rolles, Artem Rudenko, Robert L. Shoeman, Jakob Andreasson, Saša Bajt, Miriam Barthelmess, Anton Barty, Michael J. Bogan, Christoph Bostedt, John D. Bozek, Carl Caleman, Ryan Coffee, Nicola Coppola, Daniel P. DePonte, R. Bruce Doak, Tomas Ekeberg, Holger Fleckenstein, Petra Fromme, Maike Gebhardt, Heinz Graafsma, Lars Gumprecht, Janos Hajdu, Christina Y. Hampton, Andreas Hartmann, Günter Hauser, Helmut Hirsemann, Peter Holl, James M. Holton, Mark S. Hunter, Wolfgang Kabsch, Nils Kimmel, Richard A. Kirian, Mengning Liang, Filipe R.N.C. Maia, Anton Meinhart, Stefano Marchesini, Andrew V. Martin, Karol Nass, Christian Reich, Joachim Schulz, M. Marvin Seibert, Raymond Sierra, Heike Soltau, John C. H. Spence, Jan Steinbrener, Francesco Stellato, Stephan Stern, Nicusor Timneanu, Xiaoyu Wang, Georg Weidenspointner, Uwe Weierstall, Thomas A. White, Cornelia Wunderer, Henry N. Chapman, Joachim Ullrich, Lothar Strüder, and Ilme Schlichting Physical Review B, accepted (2011) 34. Spectral encoding of x-ray/optical relative delay Mina R. Bionta, H. T. Lemke, J. P. Cryan, J. M. Glownia, C. Bostedt, M. Cammarata, J.-C. Castagna, Y. Ding, D. M. Fritz, A. R. Fry, J. Krzywinski, M. Messerschmidt, S. Schorb, M. L. Swiggers, and R. 11 N. Coffee Optics Express, 19, 21855 (2011) 35. Invited Chapter: The First Atomic and Molecular Experiments at the Linac Coherent Light Source X-Ray Free Electron Laser Philip H. Bucksbaum, Ryan Coffee, and Nora Berrah Advances in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Chapter 5, Volume 60, Page 239, Elsevier, Inc. (2011) 36. Femtosecond X-ray Pulse Length Characterization at the LCLS Free Electron Laser S. Düsterer, P. Radcliffe, C. Bostedt, J. Bozek, A. L. Cavalieri, R. Coffee, J. T. Costello, D. Cubaynes, L. F. DiMauro , Y. Ding, G. Doumy, W. Helml, Schweinberger, R. Kienberger, A. R. Maier, F. Grüner, M. Messerschmidt, V. Richardson, C. Roedig, T. Tschentscher, M. Meyer New Journal of Physics, 13, 093024, (2011) 37. Photon beamlines and diagnostics at LCLS S Moeller, J Arthur, A Brachmann, R Coffee, FJ Decker, Y Ding, D Dowell, S Edstrom, P Emma, Y Feng, A Fisher, J Frisch, J Galayda, S Gilevich, J Hastings, G Hays, P Hering, Z Huang, R Iverson, J Krzywinski, S Lewis, H Loos, M Messerschmidt, A Miahnahri, HD Nuhn, D Ratner, J Rzepiela, D Schultz, T Smith, P Stefan, H Tompkins, J Turner, J Welch, B White, J Wu, G Yocky, R Bionta, E Ables, B Abraham, C Gardener, K Fong, S Friedrich, S Hau-Riege, K Kishiyama, T McCarville, D McMahon, M McKernan, L Ott, M Pivovaroff, J Robinson, D Ryutov, S Shen, R Soufli, and G Pile NIMA 635 S6-S11 (2011) 38. The Auger spectrum of double core-hole states in the molecular frame James Cryan, J. Glownia, J. Anreasson, A. Belkacem, N. Berrah, C. I. Blaga, C. Bostedt, J. Bozek, C. Buth, L. F. DiMauro, L. Fang, O. Gessner, M. Guehr, J. Hajdu, M. P. Hertlein, M. Hoener, O. Kornilov, J. P. Marangos, A. M. March, B. K. McFarland, H. Merdji, V. Petrovic, C. Raman, D. Ray, D. Reis, F. Tarantelli, M. Trigo, J. White, W. White, L. Young, P. H. Bucksbaum, R. N. Coffee Physical Review Letters, 105, 083004, (2010) 39. Double core-hole production in N2 : Beating the Auger Clock L. Fang, M. Hoener, O. Gessner, F. Tarantelli, S.T. Pratt, O. Kornilov, C. Buth, M. Gühr, E.P. Kanter, C. Bostedt, J.D. Bozek, P.H. Bucksbaum, M. Chen, R. Coffee, J. Cryan, M. Glownia, E. Kukk, S.R. Leone, and N. Berrah. Physical Review Letters, 105, 083005, (2010) 40. First lasing and operation of an ångstrom-wavelength free-electron laser P. Emma, R. Akre, J. Arthur, R. Bionta, C. Bostedt, J. Bozek, A. Brachmann, P. Bucksbaum, R. Coffee, F.-J. Decker, Y. Ding, D. Dowell, S. Edstrom, A. Fisher, J. Frisch, S. Gilevich, J. Hastings, G. Hays, Ph. Hering, Z. Huang, R. Iverson, H. Loos, M. Messerschmidt, A. Miahnahri, S. Moeller, H.-D. Nuhn, G. Pile, D. Ratner, J. Rzepiela, D. Schultz, T. Smith, P. Stefan, H. Tompkins, J. Turner, J. Welch, W. White, J. Wu, G. Yocky, and J. Galayda Nature Photonics, doi:10.1038/nphoton.2010.176 (2010) 12 41. Time-resolved pump-probe experiments at the LCLS James M. Glownia, J. Cryan, J. Andreasson, A. Belkacem, N. Berrah, C. I. Blaga, C. Bostedt, J. Bozek, L. F. DiMauro, L. Fang, J. Frisch, O. Gessner, M. Gühr, J. Hajdu, M. P. Hertlein, M. Hoener, G. Huang, O. Kornilov, J. P. Marangos, A. M. March, B. K. McFarland, H. Merdji, V. S. Petrovic, C. Raman, D. Ray, D. A. Reis, M. Trigo, J. L. White, W. White, R. Wilcox, L. Young, R. N. Coffee, and P. H. Bucksbaum Optics Express, 18, 17620, (2010) 42. Ultraintense X-Ray Induced Ionization, Dissociation, and Frustrated Absorption in Molecular Nitrogen M. Hoener, L. Fang, O. Kornilov, O. Gessner, S. T. Pratt, M. Guhr, E. P. Kanter, C. Blaga, C. Bostedt, J. D. Bozek, P. H. Bucksbaum, C. Buth, M. Chen, R. Coffee, J. Cryan, L. DiMauro, M. Glownia, E. Hosler, E. Kukk, S. R. Leone, B. McFarland, M. Messerschmidt, B. Murphy, V. Petrovic, D. Rolles, and N. Berrah Physical Review Letters, 104, 253002, (2010) 43. Field-free alignment in repetitively kicked nitrogen gas James Cryan, Phil H. Bucksbaum, and Ryan N. Coffee Physical Review A, 80, 063412, (2009) 44. Strong field impulsive alignment in the presence of high temperatures and large centrifugal distortion D. W. Broege, R. N. Coffee, and P. H. Bucksbaum Physical Review A 78, 035401 (2008) 45. Bichromatic, phase compensating interferometer based on prism pair compressors Daniel A. Flickinger, Ryan N. Coffee, and George N. Gibson, and Thomas C. Weinacht Applied Optics 45, 6187 (2006) 46. Light induced potentials ignite dissociation of N2+ 2 Ryan N. Coffee, Li Fang, and George N. Gibson Physical Review A 73, 043417 (2006) 47. Observation of enhanced excitation of I2+ 2 by strong laser fields G. N. Gibson, R. N. Coffee, and L. Fang Physical Review A 73, 023418 (2006) 48. Identifying fragment vuv excitations with dissociation channels from the strong-field ionization of N2 Ryan N. Coffee and George N. Gibson Physical Review A, 72, 011401(R) (2005) 49. vuv fluorescence from selective high-order multi-photon excitation of N2 Ryan N. Coffee and George N. Gibson Physical Review A 69, 053407 (2004) 13 Conference Proceedings Femtosecond optical/hard X-ray timing diagnostics at an FEL: implementation and performance Henrik T Lemke, Matt Weaver, Matthieu Chollet, Joseph Robinson, James M Glownia, Diling Zhu, Mina R Bionta, Marco Cammarata, Marion Harmand, Ryan N Coffee, David M Fritz SPIE 87780S-87780S-4 (2013) Spectral encoding based measurement of x-ray/optical relative delay to ∼ 10 fs rms Mina R. Bionta, Doug French, James P. Cryan, James M. Glownia, Nick Hartmann, David J. Nicholsona,c , Kevin Bakerf , Christoph Bostedta , Marco Cammarratag , Matthieu Chollet, Yuntao Ding, David M. Fritz, Steve M. Durbin, Yiping Feng, Marion Harmand, Alan R. Fry, Daniel J. Kane, Jacek Krzywinski, Henrik T. Lemke, Marc Messerschmidt, Daniel F. Ratner, Sebastian Schorb, Sven Toleikis, Diling Zhu, William E. White, and Ryan N. Coffee Proc. SPIE 8504 85040M-1 (2012) Strong field Multiphoton processes in the high-frequency limit G. Doumy, C. Roedig, A. Dichiara, C. Blaga, L. Dimauro, P. Agostini, M. Hoener, L. Fang, N. Berrah, L. Young, E. Kanter, B. Kraessig, S. Southworth, R. Santra, S. Pratt, R. Coffee, P. Bucksbaum, J. Cryan, J. Glownia, S. Ghimire, D. Reis, M. Kuebel, G. Paulus, J. Bozek and C. Bostedt APS Meeting Abstracts, 2010, http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010APS..DMP.X3001D Operational performance of LCLS beam instrumentation H. Loos, R. Akre, A. Brachmann, R. Coffee, F.-J. Decker, Y. Ding, D. Dowell, S. Edstrom, P. Emma, A. Fisher, J. Frisch, S. Gilevich, G. Hays, Ph. Hering, Z. Huang, R. Iverson, M. Messerschmidt, A. Miahnahri, S. Moeller, H.-D. Nuhn, D. Ratner, J. Rzepiela, T. Smith, P. Stefan, H. Tompkins, J. Turner, J. Welch, W. White, J. Wu, G. Yocky Beam International Workshop 2010, proceedings, (2010) Femtosecond Operation of the LCLS for User Experiments J.C. Frisch, C. Bostedt, J.D. Bozek, A. Brachmann, R.N. Coffee, F.-J. Decker, Y.T. Ding, D. Dowell, P. Emma, A. Gilevich, G. Haller, G.R. Hays, P. Hering, B.L. Hill, Z. Huang, R.H. Iverson, E.P. Kanter, B. Kraessig, H. Loos, A. Miahnahri, H.-D. Nuhn, A. Perazzo, M. Petree, D.F. Ratner, T.J. Smith, S.H. Southworth, J.L. Turner, J.J. Welch, W.E. White, R.B. Wilcox, J. Wu, L. Young The International Particle Accelerator Conference 2010, paper TUPE066, page 2287, (2010) Xray-Induced Multiple Core Vacancies in Impulsively Aligned Molecules James P. Cryan, J. Glownia, N. Berrah, C. Blaga, J. D. Bozek, C. Buth, L. DiMauro, L. Fang, M. Guehr, M. Hoener, J. Marangos, A. M. March, B. McFarland, M. Trigo, L. Young, P. H. Bucksbaum, and Ryan N. Coffee Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optical Society of America, 2010), paper JFA3. Ultrafast X-ray-Pump, Laser-Probe Spectroscopy at LCLS J. M. Glownia, J. Cryan, O. Kornilov, M. Hertlein, O. Gessner, A. Belkacem, R. Wilcox, G. Huang, J. White, V. Petrovic, C. Raman, H. Merdji, D. Ray, J. Andreasson, J. Hajdu, J. Frisch, W. White, C. Bostedt, P. H. Bucksbaum, and R. Coffee Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optical Society of America, 2010), paper JFA4. Ryan N. Coffee 14 Nonlinear Processes in N2 Using LCLS Short X-Ray Pulses L. Fang, M. Hoener, M. Guehr, C. Blaga, C. Bostedt, J. D. Bozek, P. Bucksbaum, C. Buth, R. Coffee, J. Cryan, L. DiMauro, O. Gessner, J. Glownia, E. Hosler, E. P. Kanter, O. Kornilov, E. Kukk, B. K. McFarland, B. Murphy, S. T. Pratt, D. Rolles, and N. Berrah Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optical Society of America, 2010), paper JFA5. Locking Lasers to RF in an Ultrafast FEL R. Wilcox, G. Huang, L. Doolittle, J. Byrd, W. White, J. Frisch, and R. Coffee Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optical Society of America, 2010), paper CTuA6. Impulsive alignment of N2 with a train of 8 pulses Ryan N. Coffee, James P. Cryan, and Philip H. Bucksbaum Proceedings CLEO/IQEC 2009, http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=URI=IQEC-2009IWB1 Impulsive alignment of hot, centrifugally distorted, molecules D.W. Broege, R.N. Coffee, and P.H. Bucksbaum Proceedings CLEO/QELS 2008, ISBN: 978-1-55752-859-9 (2008) Direct dissociation and laser modulated pre-dissociation of N+ 2 Ryan N. Coffee, Phil H. Bucksbaum, Li Fang, and George Gibson Proceedings QELS 2007, DOI 10.1109/QELS.2007.4431099 (2007) Direct multiphoton excitation of molecular ions produces selectively excited fragments R.N. Coffee and G.N. Gibson Proceedings QELS 2003, DOI 10.1109/QELS.2003.1276083 (2003) Presentations (27 invited) Merging data visualization with experimental design for the future of Free Electron Laser science Invited webinar, Computing for light and neutron sources March 2015 Quantum CSI: Profiling Molecules with Xrays Invited Public Lecture, SLAC, Menlo Park, California Unlocking Nature’s Timescales: Clocking chemistry at Free Electron Lasers Invited talk, IWP-RIXS, Erice, Sicily November 2014 August, 2014 FELs and Fluctuations: High Repetition for High Dimensions Invited talk, Nilssen Group, SLAC, Menlo Park, California March 2014 Free Electron Lasers: Surfing the Mavericks of science Invited colluquium, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas March 2014 Ryan N. Coffee 15 Time, Frequency, and Modulations: X-ray pulse shaping in an era of big data Invited talk, Ringberg Meeting, Tegernsee, Bavaria February 2014 Novel Short Pulses: Shaping pulses for time and frequency domain spectroscopies Invited Plenary talk, LCLS/SSRL Users Meeting, SLAC, Menlo Park, California October 2013 Supercontinuum approach to ultrafast x-ray pulse arrival and shape characterization Invited talk, Ultrafast Optics 2013, Davos, Switzerland March 2013 Time domain diagnostics: from timing to pulse shape Invited Report, 5-way FEL collaboration meeting, SLAC, Menlo Park, California February 2013 Cross-correlation temporal diagnostics: it’s all about the “wiggles” Invited talk, XFEL Users Meeting, XFEL/DESY Hamburg, Germany January 2013 Optical lasers in xFEL research Invited talk, SwissFEL wrokshop, PSI-Villigen, Switzerland November 2012 Interaction of intense x-ray FELs with atoms and molecules Invited talk, Workshop on Super-Intense Laser Atom Physics, Suzhou City, China September 2012 Timing at LCLS: developments for the future of ultrafast x-ray pump-probe SLAC Laser Program review, SLAC National Accelerator Lab, Menlo Park, California July 2012 Recent developments in timing jitter correction at the LCLS: pushing below the 10 fs limit Invited talk, PSI-SwissFEL, Villigen, Switzerland March 2012 X-ray transient absorption in O2 Invited talk, Ringberg Meeting, Tegernsee, Bavaria Time-resolved x-ray bleacing of the π ∗ absorption in O2 Contributed poster, x-ray science Gordon conference, Waterville, Maine March 2012 August 2011 Time-resolved KLL-Auger decay via transient x-ray bleaching in O2 Contributed Talk, DAMOP, Atlanta, Georgia June 2011 A case for soft x-ray pump-probe Invited talk, Ultrafast X-ray Summer School, Menlo Park, California June 2010 The LCLS X-ray free-electron laser for core-level stripping in the molecular frame... and basic energy science Invited Colloquium, University of Connecticut, Connecticut March 2010 Multiple core-hole production in second-row molecules Invited talk, Ringberg Meeting 2010, Tergensee, Germany March 2010 Ryan N. Coffee 16 Multiple core-hole production in aligned nitrogen Invited seminar, LBNL, Berkeley, California December 2009 First Pump-Probe Experiment at LCLS Invited seminar, LLNL, Livermore California December 2009 First Pump-Probe Experiment at LCLS Invited seminar, LCLS-SLAC, Menlo Park, California November 2009 Driving multiple core-holes with strong laser fields Invited Colloquium, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan March 2009 Impulsive alignment of N2 with a train of 8 pulses Contributed talk, QELS, Baltimore, Maryland June 2009 Rotational relaxation in multiply kicked N2 Contributed talk, DAMOP, Charlottesville, Virginia, May 2009 Driving multiple core-holes with strong laser fields Invited seminar, Menlo Park, California Laser Pump/X-ray Probe Opportunities at the LCLS Invited talk, LCLS/SSRL Users Meeting, Menlo Park, California December 2008 October 2008 LCLS Working groups Talk, PULSE Management Review, Menlo Park, California June 2008 PULSE - LCLS Connections Talk, PULSE External Advisory Board meeting, Menlo Park, California May 2008 Molecular alignment with an eye toward ultrafast x-rays Invited talk, Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute, Buzios, Brazil Impulsive alignment of molecular iodine in a gas cell PULSE Seminar, Menlo Park, California April 2008 October 2007 Direct dissociation and laser modulated pre-dissociation of N+ 2 Poster, Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science, Baltimore, Maryland May 2007 Wavelength, pulse duration, and dissociative ionization Invited talk, Cross-Border Workshop, Storrs, Connecticut June 2006 Light Induced Potentials... and the dissociative ionization (and excitation) of light molecules Invited talk, SUNY Stony Brook, New York November 2005 Ultra-fast lasers, faster molecules, and light-induced potentials Ryan N. Coffee 17 Seminar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan November 2005 Beyond the Optical Hammer: ultra-fast lasers and ultra-faster molecules. Seminar, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio October 2005 Molecular ions and their time resolved interactions with light Poster, Gordon Research Conference, Waterville, Maine August 2005 Tracking down resonance enhanced multi-photon excitation Seminar, Temple University, Chemistry Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania May 2005 Correlated TOF and vuv spectra of N2 corroborate new theory for O(10) photon absorption Contributed poster, Gordon Research Conference, Tilton, New Hampshire June 2004 Molecular excitation in a whole new light Invited talk, Bates College, Department of Physics, Lewiston, Maine April 2004 A new view of multi-photon coupling. . . and the experimental evidence for believing it Seminar, University of Connecticut, Department of Physics, Storrs, Connecticut vuv spectroscopic evidence for efficient high-order multi-photon coupling in N2 Contributed talk, ITAMP Open House, Cambridge, Massachusetts October 2003 September 2003 Direct multi-photon excitation of molecular ions produces selectively excited fragments Contributed talk, QELS, Baltimore, Maryland June 2003 Selective excitation of vuv transitions in N2 with ultra-short infrared light pulses Contributed talk, DAMOP, Boulder, Colorado May 2003 Extreme multi-photon coupling in molecular systems Contributed talk, DAMOP, Boulder, Colorado (for George N. Gibson) May 2003