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| WEPAB022 | Background-free Harmonic Production in XFELs via a Reverse Undulator Taper | 2618 |
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| Nonlinear harmonics in X-ray FELs can be parasitically produced as soon as FEL reaches saturation, or can be radiated in dedicated afterburners. In both cases there is a strong background at the fundamental, since it is much stronger than harmonics. One can get around this problem by application of the recently proposed reverse undulator tapering. In this contribution we present numerical simulations of harmonic production in such a configuration as well as recent results from FLASH where the second and the third harmonics were efficiently generated with a low background at the fundamental. We also present the results for a high-contrast operation when the afterburner is tuned to the fundamental. | ||
| DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2017-WEPAB022 | |
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| WEPAB023 | First Operation of a Harmonic Lasing Self-Seeded FEL | 2621 |
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| Harmonic lasing is a perspective mode of operation of X-ray FEL user facilities that allows to provide brilliant beams of higher energy photons for user experiments. Another useful application of harmonic lasing is so called Harmonic Lasing Self-Seeded Free Electron Laser (HLSS FEL) that allows to improve spectral brightness of these facilities. In the past, harmonic lasing has been demonstrated in the FEL oscillators in infrared and visible wavelength ranges, but not in high-gain FELs and not at short wavelengths. In this paper we report on the first evidence of the harmonic lasing and the first operation of the HLSS FEL at the soft X-ray FEL user facility FLASH in the wavelength range between 4.5 nm and 15 nm. Spectral brightness was improved in comparison with Self-Amplified Spontaneous emission (SASE) FEL by a factor of six in the exponential gain regime. A better performance of HLSS FEL with respect to SASE FEL in the post-saturation regime with a tapered undulator was observed as well. The first demonstration of harmonic lasing in a high-gain FEL and at a short wavelength paves the way for a variety of applications of this new operation mode in X-ray FELs. | ||
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| WEPAB027 | Frequency Doubler and Two-color Mode of Operation at Free Electron Laser FLASH2 | 2635 |
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| We report on the results of the first operation of a frequency doubler at free electron laser FLASH2. The scheme uses the feature of the variable gap undulator. Undulator is divided in two parts. The second part of the undulator is tuned to the double frequency of the first part. Amplification process in the first undulator part is stopped at the onset of the nonlinear regime, such that nonlinear higher harmonic bunching in the electron beam density becomes pronouncing, but the radiation level is still small to disturb the electron beam significantly. Modulated electron beam enters the second part of the undulator and generates radiation at the 2nd harmonic. Frequency doubler allows operation in a two-color mode and operation at shorter wavelengths with respect to standard SASE scheme. Tuning of the electron beam trajectory, phase shifters and compression allows to tune intensities of the first and the second harmonic. The shortest wavelength of 3.1 nm (photon energy 400 eV) has been achieved with frequency doubler scheme, which is significantly below the design value for the standard SASE option. | ||
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| WEPAB029 | Optimum Undulator Tapering of SASE FEL: From the Theory to Experiment | 2639 |
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Optimization of the amplification process in FEL amplifier with diffraction effects taken into account results in a specific law of the undulator tapering [*]. It is a smooth function with quadratic behavior in the beginning of the tapering section which transforms to a linear behavior for a long undulator. In practice, undulator consists of a sequence of modules of fixed length separated with intersections. Two modes of undulator tapering can be implemented: step tapering, and smooth tapering. Procedure of the step tapering applies step change of the undulator gap from module to module, and smooth tapering assumes additional linear change of the gap along each module. In this report we simulate the performance of the both experimental options and compare with theoretical limit.
[*] E.A. Schneidmiller and M.V. Yurkov, Optimization of a high efficiency free electron laser amplifier, Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 18 (2015) 030705. |
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