TY - CPAPER
AU - van der Slot, P.J.M.
AU - Freund, H.
AU - van der Slot, P.J.M.
TI - Three-dimensional, Time-dependent Simulation of Free-Electron Lasers
J2 - Proc. of FEL2015
AB - Minerva is a simulation code that models the interaction of electrons with an optical field inside an undulator. Minerva uses a modal expansion for the optical field and the full Newton-Lorentz force equation to track the particles through the optical and magnetic fields. To allow propagation of the optical field outside the undulator and interact with optical elements, MINERVA interfaces with the optical propagation code OPC to mode, for example, FEL oscillators. As there exists a large variety of FELs ranging from long-wavelength oscillators to soft and hard X-ray FELs that are either seeded or starting from noise, a simulation code, such as Minerva, should be capable of modelling this huge variety of FEL configurations. Here we present a validation of the Minerva code against experimental data for various FEL configurations, ranging from long wavelength FEL oscillators to hard X-ray SASE FEL.
PB - JACoW
CY - Geneva, Switzerland
SP - 331
EP - 333
KW - undulator
KW - simulation
KW - electron
KW - FEL
KW - experiment
DA - 2015/12
PY - 2015
SN - 978-3-95450-134-2
DO - 10.18429/JACoW-FEL2015-TUP004
UR - http://accelconf.web.cern.ch/AccelConf/FEL2015/papers/tup004.pdf
ER -