Аннотация:The time–energy information of ultrashort X-ray free-electron laser pulses generated by the Linac Coherent Light Source is
measured with attosecond resolution via angular streaking of neon 1s photoelectrons. The X-ray pulses promote electrons from
the neon core level into an ionization continuum, where they are dressed with the electric field of a circularly polarized infrared
laser. This induces characteristic modulations of the resulting photoelectron energy and angular distribution. From these modulations
we recover the single-shot attosecond intensity structure and chirp of arbitrary X-ray pulses based on self-amplified
spontaneous emission, which have eluded direct measurement so far. We characterize individual attosecond pulses, including
their instantaneous frequency, and identify double pulses with well-defined delays and spectral properties, thus paving the way
for X-ray pump/X-ray probe attosecond free-electron laser science.