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Bougeard, M.

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TUPPH048 Recent Results of the SPARC Project 359
 
  • M. Ferrario, D. Alesini, M. Bellaveglia, R. Boni, M. Boscolo, M. Castellano, E. Chiadroni, A. Clozza, L. Cultrera, G. Di Pirro, A. Drago, A. Esposito, L. Ficcadenti, D. Filippetto, V. Fusco, A. Gallo, G. Gatti, A. Ghigo, A. Marcelli, B. Marchetti, M. Migliorati, A. Mostacci, E. Pace, L. Palumbo, L. Pellegrino, R. Ricci, U. Rotundo, C. Sanelli, F. Sgamma, B. Spataro, F. Tazzioli, S. Tomassini, C. Vaccarezza, M. Vescovi, C. Vicario
    INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma)
  • A. Bacci, I. Boscolo, F. Broggi, F. Castelli, S. Cialdi, C. De Martinis, D. Giove, C. Maroli, V. Petrillo, A. R. Rossi, L. Serafini
    Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Milano
  • M. Bougeard, B. Carré, D. Garzella, M. Labat, G. Lambert, H. Merdji, P. Salieres, O. Tchebakoff
    CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette
  • L. Catani
    INFN-Roma II, Roma
  • A. Cianchi
    Università di Roma II Tor Vergata, Roma
  • F. Ciocci, G. Dattoli, M. Del Franco, A. Dipace, A. Doria, G. P. Gallerano, L. Giannessi, E. Giovenale, G. L. Orlandi, S. Pagnutti, A. Petralia, M. Quattromini, C. Ronsivalle, E. Sabia, I. P. Spassovsky, V. Surrenti
    ENEA C. R. Frascati, Frascati (Roma)
  • M.-E. Couprie
    SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette
  • A. Marinelli, J. B. Rosenzweig
    UCLA, Los Angeles, California
  • M. Mattioli, M. Petrarca, M. Serluca
    INFN-Roma, Roma
  • J. Rossbach
    Uni HH, Hamburg
  
  The SPARC project foresees the realization of a high brightness photo-injector to produce a 150-200 MeV electron beam to drive 500 nm FEL experiments in various configurations. The SPARC photoinjector is also the test facility for the recently approved VUV FEL project named SPARX. The second stage of the commissioning, that is currently underway, foresees a detailed analysis of the beam matching with the linac in order to confirm the theoretically prediction of emittance compensation based on the “invariant envelope” matching , the demonstration of the “velocity bunching” technique in the linac and the characterisation of the spontaneous emission radiation in the SPARC undulators. In this paper we report the experimental results obtained so far.  
TUPPH080 FEL Emissions at 160 nm in Seeded Configuration on the SCSS Test Accelerator 429
 
  • G. Lambert
    LOA, Palaiseau
  • M. Bougeard, B. Carré, D. Garzella, O. B. Gobert, M. Labat, H. Merdji, P. Salieres
    CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette
  • O. V. Chubar, M.-E. Couprie
    SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette
  • T. Hara, H. Kitamura, T. Shintake, M. Yabashi
    RIKEN/SPring-8, Hyogo
  • T. Ishikawa, K. Tahara, Y. T. Tanaka
    RIKEN Spring-8 Harima, Hyogo
  • T. Tanikawa
    UVSOR, Okazaki
  
  Recently it has been proved that seeding a Free-Electron Laser with Harmonics Generated in gas can drastically improve the properties of the light emission and in particular the temporal coherence, which is quite limited in the Self-Amplified Spontaneous Emission configuration. Here, the impact of the seed level on the FEL emission has been characterized at 160 nm on the SCSS Test Accelerator. Actually, at extremely low level of HHG injection (0.5 pJ, 10 W), i.e. approximately ten times the effective noise power of the SASE emission, the FEL emission starts to be amplified and the number of spikes decrease. Then, the FEL energy per pulse begins clearly proportional to the HHG energy per pulse. More specifically for a seed power (<175 W) 230 times larger than the effective SASE noise power, the FEL spectrum exhibits a stable quasi Gaussian shape. As it is theoretically feasible to generate XUV harmonics which can be dominating with a similar factor, one can imagine High Gain Harmonic Generation configurations with only two or three stages for reaching wavelengths of a few nanometers.