TY - CPAPER AU - Schneidmiller, E. AU - Yurkov, M.V. TI - Optimization of a High Efficiency Free Electron Laser Amplifier J2 - Proc. of FEL2015 AB - Technique of undulator tapering in the post-saturation regime is used at the existing X-ray FELs for increasing the radiation power. We present comprehensive analysis of the problem in the framework of one-dimensional and three-dimensional theory. We find that diffraction effects essentially influence on the choice of the tapering strategy. Our studies resulted in a general law of the undulator tapering for a seeded FEL amplifier as well as for SASE FEL. PB - JACoW CY - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 17 EP - 23 KW - electron KW - FEL KW - undulator KW - radiation KW - brilliance DA - 2015/12 PY - 2015 SN - 978-3-95450-134-2 DO - 10.18429/JACoW-FEL2015-MOC02 UR - http://accelconf.web.cern.ch/AccelConf/FEL2015/papers/moc02.pdf ER -