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THPD47 | Progress on the Generation of Undulator Radiation in the UV from a Plasma-based Electron Beam | 638 |
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Recently, at the Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquée, progresses have been made for the development of 5th generation light sources based on plasma-accelerator. Electron beams of tens of picocoulomb at about 200 MeV has been generated at the interaction of a 1 Joule, 30 fs laser focussed on a 3 mm long gas target at an electron density of 5 1018 cm-3. Then, the electron beam was refocused with a quadrupoles triplet inside a 60 cm long undulator composed of 34 periods of 18 mm with a deflection parameter equal to 1. In these conditions synchrotron radiation UV light has been measured. This constitutes a promising first step in the view of realizing FEL based on plasma acceleration in future. | ||