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| WEPA01 | Short Pulse Radiation from an Energy-Chirped Electron Bunch in a Soft-X-Ray FEL | 358 |
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The production of short pulse radiation of 1fs or below would open up many new areas of research. Saldin et al recently proposed a scheme to generate such pulses, in which a laser pulse consisting of only a few optical cycles is used to give a short energy chirp to the electron bunch and uses a tapered undulator to compensate the chirped region. In this paper we study the application of this scheme to a soft x-ray free electron laser, including the results of fully start to end simulations and an assessment of the sensitivity to jitter. |