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TUP032 | Regenerative Amplification for a Hard X-Ray Free-Electron Laser | 118 |
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Funding: This work was supported by the Department of Energy, Laboratory Directed Research and Development program at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, under contract DE-AC02-76SF00515. An X-ray regenerative amplifier FEL (XRAFEL) utilizes an X-ray crystal cavity to provide optical feedback to the entrance of a high-gain undulator. An XRAFEL system leverages gain-guiding in the undulator to reduce the cavity alignment tolerances and targets the production of longitudinally coherent and high peak power and brightness X-ray pulses that could significantly enhance the performance of a standard single-pass SASE amplifier. The successful implementation of an X-ray cavity in the XRAFEL scheme requires the demonstration of X-ray optical components that can either satisfy large output coupling constraints or passively output a large fraction of the amplified coherent radiation. Here, we present new schemes to either actively Q-switch a diamond Bragg crystal through lattice constant manipulation or passively output couple a large fraction of the stored cavity radiation through controlled FEL microbunch rotation. A beamline design study, cavity stability analysis, and optimization will be presented illustrating the performance of potential XRAFEL configurations at LCLS-II/-HE using high-fidelity simulations. |
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DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-FEL2019-TUP032 | |
About • | paper received ※ 24 August 2019 paper accepted ※ 26 August 2019 issue date ※ 05 November 2019 | |
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TUD04 | Cavity-Based Free-Electron Laser Research and Development: A Joint Argonne National Laboratory and SLAC National Laboratory Collaboration | 282 |
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One solution for producing longitudinally coherent FEL pulses is to store and recirculate the output of an amplifier in an X-ray cavity so that the X-ray pulse can interact with following fresh electron bunches over many passes. The X-ray FEL oscillator (XFELO) and the X-ray regenerative amplifier FEL (XRAFEL) concepts use this technique and rely on the same fundamental ingredients to realize their full capability. Both schemes require a high repetition rate electron beam, an undulator to provide FEL gain, and an X-ray cavity to recirculate and monochromatize the radiation. The shared infrastructure, complementary performance characteristics, and potentially transformative FEL properties of the XFELO and XRAFEL have brought together a joint Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) and SLAC National Laboratory (SLAC) collaboration aimed at enabling these schemes at LCLS-II. We present plans to install a rectangular X-ray cavity in the LCLS-II undulator hall and perform experiments employing 2-bunch copper RF linac accelerated electron beams. This includes performing cavity ring-down measurements and 2-pass gain measurements for both the low-gain XFELO and the high-gain RAFEL schemes. | ||
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DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-FEL2019-TUD04 | |
About • | paper received ※ 25 August 2019 paper accepted ※ 29 August 2019 issue date ※ 05 November 2019 | |
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THP036 | Microbunch Rotation for Hard X-Ray Beam Multiplexing | 665 |
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Funding: This work was supported by the Department of Energy, Laboratory Directed Research and Development program at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, under contract DE-AC02-76SF00515. Electron bunches in an undulator develop periodic density modulations, or microbunches, which enable the exponential gain of X-ray power in a SASE FEL. Many FEL applications could benefit from the ability to preserve microbunching through a dipole kick. For example, X-ray beam multiplexing can be achieved if electron bunches are kicked into separate beamlines and allowed to lase in a final undulator. The microbunches developed in upstream undulators, if properly rotated, will lase off axis, producing radiation at an angle offset from the initial beam axis. Microbunch rotation with soft X-rays was previously published and demonstrated experimentally [1], multiplexing LCLS into three X-ray beams. Additional 2018 data demonstrated multiplexing of hard X-rays. Here we describe efforts to reproduce these hard X-ray experiments using an analytical model and Genesis simulations. Our goal is to apply microbunch rotation to out-coupling from a cavity-based XFEL, (RAFEL/XFELO) [2]. [1] J. P. MacArthur et al., Physical Review X 8, 041036 (2018). [2] G. Marcus et al. Poster TUD04 presented at FEL2019 (2019). |
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DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-FEL2019-THP036 | |
About • | paper received ※ 24 August 2019 paper accepted ※ 26 August 2019 issue date ※ 05 November 2019 | |
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