FEL2013 - List of Authors (Iverson, R.H.)

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WEPSO10	Increased Stability Requirements for Seeded Beams at LCLS	518
	F.-J. Decker, W.S. Colocho, Z. Huang, R.H. Iverson, A. Krasnykh, A.A. Lutman, M.N. Nguyen, T.O. Raubenheimer, M.C. Ross, J.L. Turner, L. Wang SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
	Funding: Work supported by U.S. Department of Energy, Contract DE-AC02-76SF00515. Running the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) with self-seeded photon beams requires better electron beam stability, especially in energy, to reduce the otherwise huge intensity variations of more than 100%. Code was written to identify and quantify the different jitter sources. Some improvements are being addressed, especially the stability of the modulator high voltage of some critical RF stations. Special setups like running the beam off crest in the last part of the linac can also be used to reduce the energy jitter. Even a slight dependence on the transverse position was observed. The intensity jitter distribution of a seeded beam is still more contained with peaks up too twice the average intensity, compared to the jitter distribution of a SASE beam going through a monochromator, which can have damaging spikes up to 5 times the average intensity.

WEPSO27	Recent LCLS Performance From 250 to 500 eV	554
	R.H. Iverson, J. Arthur, U. Bergmann, C. Bostedt, J.D. Bozek, A. Brachmann, W.S. Colocho, F.-J. Decker, Y. Ding, Y. Feng, J.C. Frisch, J.N. Galayda, T. Galetto, Z. Huang, E.M. Kraft, J. Krzywinski, J.C. Liu, H. Loos, X.S. Mao, S.P. Moeller, H.-D. Nuhn, A.A. Prinz, D.F. Ratner, T.O. Raubenheimer, S.H. Rokni, W.F. Schlotter, P.M. Schuh, T.J. Smith, M. Stanek, P. Stefan, M.K. Sullivan, J.L. Turner, J.J. Turner, J.J. Welch, J. Wu, F. Zhou SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA P. Emma LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA R. Soufli LLNL, Livermore, California, USA
	Funding: Work supported by US Department of Energy contract DE-AC02-76SF00515 and BES. The Linac Coherent Light Source is an X-ray free-electron laser at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. It produces coherent soft and hard X-rays with peak brightness nearly ten orders of magnitude beyond conventional synchrotron sources and a range of pulse durations from 500 to <10 fs. The facility has been operating at X-ray energy from 500 to 10,000eV. Users have expressed great interest in doing experiments with X-Rays near the carbon absorption edge at 284eV. We describe the operation and performance of the LCLS in the newly established regime between 250 and 500eV. [1] Emma, P. et al., “First lasing and operation of an ˚angstrom-wavelength free-electron laser,” Nature Pho- ton. 4(9), 641–647 (2010).

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Increased Stability Requirements for Seeded Beams at LCLS

518

F.-J. Decker, W.S. Colocho, Z. Huang, R.H. Iverson, A. Krasnykh, A.A. Lutman, M.N. Nguyen, T.O. Raubenheimer, M.C. Ross, J.L. Turner, L. Wang
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA

Funding: Work supported by U.S. Department of Energy, Contract DE-AC02-76SF00515.
Running the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) with self-seeded photon beams requires better electron beam stability, especially in energy, to reduce the otherwise huge intensity variations of more than 100%. Code was written to identify and quantify the different jitter sources. Some improvements are being addressed, especially the stability of the modulator high voltage of some critical RF stations. Special setups like running the beam off crest in the last part of the linac can also be used to reduce the energy jitter. Even a slight dependence on the transverse position was observed. The intensity jitter distribution of a seeded beam is still more contained with peaks up too twice the average intensity, compared to the jitter distribution of a SASE beam going through a monochromator, which can have damaging spikes up to 5 times the average intensity.

WEPSO27

Recent LCLS Performance From 250 to 500 eV

554

R.H. Iverson, J. Arthur, U. Bergmann, C. Bostedt, J.D. Bozek, A. Brachmann, W.S. Colocho, F.-J. Decker, Y. Ding, Y. Feng, J.C. Frisch, J.N. Galayda, T. Galetto, Z. Huang, E.M. Kraft, J. Krzywinski, J.C. Liu, H. Loos, X.S. Mao, S.P. Moeller, H.-D. Nuhn, A.A. Prinz, D.F. Ratner, T.O. Raubenheimer, S.H. Rokni, W.F. Schlotter, P.M. Schuh, T.J. Smith, M. Stanek, P. Stefan, M.K. Sullivan, J.L. Turner, J.J. Turner, J.J. Welch, J. Wu, F. Zhou
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
P. Emma
LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
R. Soufli
LLNL, Livermore, California, USA

Funding: Work supported by US Department of Energy contract DE-AC02-76SF00515 and BES.
The Linac Coherent Light Source is an X-ray free-electron laser at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. It produces coherent soft and hard X-rays with peak brightness nearly ten orders of magnitude beyond conventional synchrotron sources and a range of pulse durations from 500 to <10 fs. The facility has been operating at X-ray energy from 500 to 10,000eV. Users have expressed great interest in doing experiments with X-Rays near the carbon absorption edge at 284eV. We describe the operation and performance of the LCLS in the newly established regime between 250 and 500eV.
[1] Emma, P. et al., “First lasing and operation of an ˚angstrom-wavelength free-electron laser,” Nature Pho-
ton. 4(9), 641–647 (2010).