FEL2014 - List of Keywords (focusing)

Paper	Title	Other Keywords	Page
MOP019	Double-grating Monochromator for Ultrafast Free-electron Laser Beamlines	FEL, laser, radiation, operation	58
	F. Frassetto, L. P. Poletto CNR-IFN, Padova, Italy M. Kuhlmann, E. Plönjes DESY, Hamburg, Germany
	We present the design of an ultrafast monochromator explicitly designed for extreme-ultraviolet FEL sources, in particular the upcoming FLASH II at DESY. The design originates from the variable-line-spaced (VLS) grating monochromator by adding a second grating to compensate for the pulse-front tilt given by the first grating after the diffraction. The covered spectral range is 6-60 nm, the spectral resolution is in the range 1000–2000, while the residual temporal broadening is lower than 15 fs. The proposed design minimizes the number of optical elements, since just one grating is added with respect to a standard VLS monochromator and requires simple mechanical movements, since only rotations are needed to perform the spectral scan.

TUP022	The Implementation of 3D Undulator Fields in the Unaveraged FEL Simulation Code Puffin	undulator, electron, FEL, simulation	416
	J. Henderson, L.T. Campbell, B.W.J. MᶜNeil USTRAT/SUPA, Glasgow, United Kingdom A.R. Maier CFEL, Hamburg, Germany A.R. Maier Uni HH, Hamburg, Germany
	Funding: We acknowledge STFC MoA 4132361; ARCHIE-WeSt HPC, EPSRC grant EP/K000586/1; John von Neumann Institute for Computing (NIC) on JUROPA at Jlich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), under project HHH20 The FEL simulation code Puffin is modified to include 3D magnetic undulator fields. Puffin, having previously used a 1D undulator field, is modified to accommodate general 3D magnetic fields. Both plane and curved pole undulators have been implemented. The electron motion for both agrees with analytic predictions.

TUP040	Flying RF Undulator	undulator, electron, radiation, resonance	474
	A.V. Savilov, I.V. Bandurkin, S.V. Kuzikov, A.A. Vikharev IAP/RAS, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
	A new concept for the room-temperature rf undulator, designed to produce coherent X-ray radiation by means of a relatively low-energy electron beam and pulsed mm-wavelength radiation, is proposed. The “flying” undulator is a high-power short rf pulse co-propagating together with a relativistic electron bunch in a helically corrugated waveguide. The electrons wiggle in the rf field of the -1st spatial harmonic with the phase velocity directed in the opposite direction in respect to the bunch velocity, so that particles can irradiate high-frequency Compton’s photons. A high group velocity (close to the speed of light) ensures long cooperative motion of the particles and the co-propagating rf pulse. This work is supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Projects 14-08-00803 and 14-02-00691).
	Poster TUP040 [0.189 MB]

TUP046	Terahertz FEL based on Photoinjector Beam in RF Undulator	undulator, electron, FEL, radiation	485
	S.V. Kuzikov, I.V. Bandurkin, M.E. Plotkin, A.V. Savilov, A.A. Vikharev IAP/RAS, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia A.V. Savilov NNGU, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
	Photoinjectors, which can produce picosecond electron bunches of MeV-level, are attractive for THz generation. Fortunately, a long distance to reach scattering power saturation in FEL is not necessary, if bunch length is shorter than the produced THz half-wavelength. However, the energy of several MeVs does not allow providing long traveling of the flying bunch without longitudinal divergence. That is why, we suggest using specific RF undulator in a form of the normal wave in the helical waveguide at 3 cm wavelength. The mentioned wave has the -1st space harmonic with transverse fields and negative phase velocity (responsible for particle wiggling). This wave has also the 0th harmonic with longitudinal field and positive phase velocity equal to bunch velocity. Due to the synchronous 0th harmonic one can channel low-energy bunches (due to longitudinal focusing field) as far as several meters distance. One might also inject electron bunches in slightly accelerating field, in this case the output THz pulse obtain nearly linear frequency modulation. Such long THz pulses with the mentioned modulation of the frequency can be effectively compressed by pair of diffraction gratings.
	Poster TUP046 [2.914 MB]

THP036	Benchmark and Simulation Design of a Low Energy Bunch Compressor	gun, simulation, electron, space-charge	795
	A. He, F.J. Willeke, L. Yang, L.-H. Yu BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA J. Qiang LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
	In the electron beam slicing method, a low energy bunch with very short and focused beam size is required to interact with the storage ring bunch. We have designed a low energy bunch compressor with BNL photocathode electron RF-gun by applying simulation code PARMELA. In this paper, in order to increase the repetition rate of the electron beam slicing system, we change the compressor’s RF gun from BNL RF-gun to LBNL’s VHF gun and redesign the compressor by applying IMPACT-T with both space charge effects and CSR effects considered. The benchmark between PARMELA and IMPACT-T has produced excellent agreement. The comparison of the CSR effects also shows the bunch can be compressed and focused to our desired size after optimization using code IMPACT-T with CSR effects turned on. The new compressor with high repetition rate still works in space charge dominated domain and the bunch with a negative energy chirp at the entrance of the chicane is compressed by a chicane with positive R56. After the optimization, we have achieved a low energy bunch with the 128 fs RMS bunch length, 42 μm and 25 μm RMS beam size in the vertical and horizontal directions respectively, at 22 MeV with 200 pC charge.

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MOP019

Double-grating Monochromator for Ultrafast Free-electron Laser Beamlines

FEL, laser, radiation, operation

58

F. Frassetto, L. P. Poletto
CNR-IFN, Padova, Italy
M. Kuhlmann, E. Plönjes
DESY, Hamburg, Germany

We present the design of an ultrafast monochromator explicitly designed for extreme-ultraviolet FEL sources, in particular the upcoming FLASH II at DESY. The design originates from the variable-line-spaced (VLS) grating monochromator by adding a second grating to compensate for the pulse-front tilt given by the first grating after the diffraction. The covered spectral range is 6-60 nm, the spectral resolution is in the range 1000–2000, while the residual temporal broadening is lower than 15 fs. The proposed design minimizes the number of optical elements, since just one grating is added with respect to a standard VLS monochromator and requires simple mechanical movements, since only rotations are needed to perform the spectral scan.

TUP022

The Implementation of 3D Undulator Fields in the Unaveraged FEL Simulation Code Puffin

undulator, electron, FEL, simulation

416

J. Henderson, L.T. Campbell, B.W.J. MᶜNeil
USTRAT/SUPA, Glasgow, United Kingdom
A.R. Maier
CFEL, Hamburg, Germany
A.R. Maier
Uni HH, Hamburg, Germany

Funding: We acknowledge STFC MoA 4132361; ARCHIE-WeSt HPC, EPSRC grant EP/K000586/1; John von Neumann Institute for Computing (NIC) on JUROPA at Jlich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), under project HHH20
The FEL simulation code Puffin is modified to include 3D magnetic undulator fields. Puffin, having previously used a 1D undulator field, is modified to accommodate general 3D magnetic fields. Both plane and curved pole undulators have been implemented. The electron motion for both agrees with analytic predictions.

TUP040

Flying RF Undulator

undulator, electron, radiation, resonance

474

A.V. Savilov, I.V. Bandurkin, S.V. Kuzikov, A.A. Vikharev
IAP/RAS, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

A new concept for the room-temperature rf undulator, designed to produce coherent X-ray radiation by means of a relatively low-energy electron beam and pulsed mm-wavelength radiation, is proposed. The “flying” undulator is a high-power short rf pulse co-propagating together with a relativistic electron bunch in a helically corrugated waveguide. The electrons wiggle in the rf field of the -1st spatial harmonic with the phase velocity directed in the opposite direction in respect to the bunch velocity, so that particles can irradiate high-frequency Compton’s photons. A high group velocity (close to the speed of light) ensures long cooperative motion of the particles and the co-propagating rf pulse. This work is supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Projects 14-08-00803 and 14-02-00691).

Poster TUP040 [0.189 MB]

TUP046

Terahertz FEL based on Photoinjector Beam in RF Undulator

undulator, electron, FEL, radiation

485

S.V. Kuzikov, I.V. Bandurkin, M.E. Plotkin, A.V. Savilov, A.A. Vikharev
IAP/RAS, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
A.V. Savilov
NNGU, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

Photoinjectors, which can produce picosecond electron bunches of MeV-level, are attractive for THz generation. Fortunately, a long distance to reach scattering power saturation in FEL is not necessary, if bunch length is shorter than the produced THz half-wavelength. However, the energy of several MeVs does not allow providing long traveling of the flying bunch without longitudinal divergence. That is why, we suggest using specific RF undulator in a form of the normal wave in the helical waveguide at 3 cm wavelength. The mentioned wave has the -1st space harmonic with transverse fields and negative phase velocity (responsible for particle wiggling). This wave has also the 0th harmonic with longitudinal field and positive phase velocity equal to bunch velocity. Due to the synchronous 0th harmonic one can channel low-energy bunches (due to longitudinal focusing field) as far as several meters distance. One might also inject electron bunches in slightly accelerating field, in this case the output THz pulse obtain nearly linear frequency modulation. Such long THz pulses with the mentioned modulation of the frequency can be effectively compressed by pair of diffraction gratings.

Poster TUP046 [2.914 MB]

THP036

Benchmark and Simulation Design of a Low Energy Bunch Compressor

gun, simulation, electron, space-charge

795

A. He, F.J. Willeke, L. Yang, L.-H. Yu
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
J. Qiang
LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA

In the electron beam slicing method, a low energy bunch with very short and focused beam size is required to interact with the storage ring bunch. We have designed a low energy bunch compressor with BNL photocathode electron RF-gun by applying simulation code PARMELA. In this paper, in order to increase the repetition rate of the electron beam slicing system, we change the compressor’s RF gun from BNL RF-gun to LBNL’s VHF gun and redesign the compressor by applying IMPACT-T with both space charge effects and CSR effects considered. The benchmark between PARMELA and IMPACT-T has produced excellent agreement. The comparison of the CSR effects also shows the bunch can be compressed and focused to our desired size after optimization using code IMPACT-T with CSR effects turned on. The new compressor with high repetition rate still works in space charge dominated domain and the bunch with a negative energy chirp at the entrance of the chicane is compressed by a chicane with positive R56. After the optimization, we have achieved a low energy bunch with the 128 fs RMS bunch length, 42 μm and 25 μm RMS beam size in the vertical and horizontal directions respectively, at 22 MeV with 200 pC charge.