Tunable vacuum ultraviolet laser based spectrometer for angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy

We have developed an angle-resolved photoemission spectrometer with tunable vacuum ultraviolet laser as a photon source. The photon source is based on the fourth harmonic generation of a near IR beam from a Ti:sapphire laser pumped by a CW green laser and tunable between 5.3 eV and 7 eV. The most important part of the set-up is a compact, vacuum enclosed fourth harmonic generator based on potassium beryllium fluoroborate crystals, grown hydrothermally in the US. This source can deliver a photon flux of over 10(14) photon/s. We demonstrate that this energy range is sufficient to measure the k(z) dispersion in an iron arsenic high temperature superconductor, which was previously only possible at synchrotron facilities.