Recent progress in vacuum-ultraviolet polarization modulation spectroscopy using polarizing undulator at the TERAS BL5 beamline.

Polarization modulation spectroscopy using an Onuki-type undulator is a useful technique for circular dichroism study in the vacuum-ultraviolet region. We have been developing the vacuum-ultraviolet circular dichroism (vuv-CD) spectroscopy in TERAS BL5 beamline at AIST. This paper describes recent improvements in our instrumentation and methods of analysis to achieve precise and absolute measurements. The CD signal is usually accompanied by experimental artifacts, and elimination of all possible artifacts is the key issue for making reliable measurements. After improving beamline optical system, light flux monitor, and undulator operation method, the base line shift of the CD spectrum is suppressed less than 3x10(-4). Sample manipulation and data processing procedures are also described and absolute CD spectrum can be obtained even for linear anisotropic sample. These progresses lead to more quantitative comparison of experimental with calculation on vuv-CD spectrum.