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TUP008 High-Gain FEL in the Space-Charge Dominated Raman Limit 347
 
  • I.I. Gadjev, C. Emma, A. Nause, J.B. Rosenzweig
    UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
 
  While FEL technology has reached the EUV and X-ray regime at existing machines such as LCLS and SACLA, the scale of these projects is often impractical for research and industrial applications. Sub-millimeter period undulators can reduce the size of a high-gain EUV FEL, but will impose stringent conditions on the electron beam. In particular, a high-gain EUV FEL based on undulators with a sub-millimeter period will require electron beam currents upwards of 1 kA at energies below 100 MeV. Coupled with the small gap of such undulators and their low undulator strengths, K < 0.1, these beam parameters bring longitudinal space-charge effects to the foreground of the FEL process. When the wavelength of plasma oscillations in the electron beam becomes comparable to the gain-length, the 1D theoretical FEL model transitions from the Compton to the Raman limit. In this work, we investigate the behavior of the FEL's gain-length and efficiency in these two limits. The starting point for the analysis was the one-dimensional FEL theory including space-charge forces. The derived results were compared to numerical results of Genesis 1.3 simulations. This theoretical model predicts that in the Raman limit, the gain-length scales as the beam current to the -1/4th power while the efficiency plateaus to a constant.  
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TUP020 Recent Study in iSASE 393
 
  • K. Fang, C. Pellegrini, J. Wu
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
  • C. Emma, C. Pellegrini
    UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • S. Hsu
    University of California, San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, California, USA
 
  The Improved Self-Amplified Spontaneous Radiation (iSASE) scheme has potential to reduce SASE FEL bandwidth. This is achieved by repeatedly delaying the electrons with respect to the radiation pulse using phase shifters in the undulator break sections. It has been shown that the strength, locations and sequences of phase shifters are important to the iSASE performance. Particle swarm optimization algorithm is used to explore the phase shifters configuration space globally.  
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WEP075 Femtosecond X-ray Pulse Generation with an Energy Chirped Electron Beam 722
 
  • C. Emma, C. Pellegrini
    UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • Y. Ding, Z. Huang, A.A. Lutman, G. Marcus, A. Marinelli, C. Pellegrini
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
 
  We study the generation of short (sub 10 fs) pulses in the X-ray spectral region using an energy chirped electron beam in a Self Amplified Spontaneous Emission Free Electron Laser (SASE FEL) and a self-seeding monochromator [1]-[2]. The monochromator filters a small bandwidth, short duration pulse from the frequency chirped SASE spectrum. This pulse is used to seed a small fraction of the long chirped beam, hence a short pulse with narrow bandwidth is amplified in the following undulators. We present start-to-end simulation results for LCLS operating in the soft X-ray self-seeded mode with an energy chirp of 1% over 30 fs and a bunch charge of 150pC. We demonstrate the potential to generate ~5 fs pulses with a bandwidth ~0.3eV. We also assess the possibility of further shortening the pulse by utilizing one more chicane after the self-seeding stage and shifting the radiation pulse to a 'fresh' part of the electron beam. Experimental study on this short pulse seeding mode has been planned at the LCLS.  
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WEP076 Tapering Studies for TW Level X-ray FELs with a Superconducting Undulator and Built-in Focusing 726
 
  • C. Emma
    UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
  • K. Fang, C. Pellegrini, J. Wu
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
 
  Funding: U.S. Department of Energy DE-SC0009983.
Tapering optimization schemes for TeraWatt (TW) level X-ray Free Electron Lasers (FELs) are critically sensitive to the length of individual undulator and break sections. Break sections can be considerably shortened if the focusing quadrupole field is superimposed on the undulator field increasing the filling factor and the overall extraction efficiency of the tapered FEL. Furthermore, distributed focusing reduces the FODO length and allows one to use smaller beta functions. This reduces particle de-trapping due to betatron motion from the radial tails of the electron beam. We present numerical calculations of the tapering optimization for such an undulator using the three dimensional time dependent code GENESIS. Time dependent simulations show that 8 keV photons can be produced with over 3 TW peak power in a 100m long undulator. We also analyze in detail the time dependent effects leading to power saturation in the taper region. The impact of the synchrotron sideband growth on particle detrapping and taper saturation is discussed. We show that the optimal taper profile obtained from time independent simulation does not yield the maximum extraction efficiency when multi-frequency effects are included. A discussion of how to incorporate these effects in a revised model is presented.
 
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WEP085 Conceptual Theory of Spontaneous and Taper-Enhanced Superradiance and Stimulated Superradiance 746
 
  • A. Gover, R. Ianconescu
    University of Tel-Aviv, Faculty of Engineering, Tel-Aviv, Israel
  • C. Emma, P. Musumeci
    UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
  • A. Friedman
    Ariel University, Ariel, Israel
 
  Funding: We acknowledge partial support by the U.S. Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF)Jerusalem, Israel
In the context of radiation emission from an electron beam Dicke's superradiance (SR) is the enhanced radiation emission from a pre-bunched beam. Stimulated Superradiance (ST-SR) is the further enhanced emission of the bunched beam in the presence of a phase-matched radiation wave. These processes were analyzed for Undulator radiation in the framework of radiation field mode-excitation theory[1]. In the nonlinear saturation regime the synchronism of the bunched beam and an injected radiation wave may be sustained by wiggler tapering [2]. Same processes are instrumental also in enhancing the radiative emission in the tapered wiggler section of seeded FEL[3]. In a long tapered wiggler the diffraction of the emitted radiation wave is not negligible even at Angstroms wavelengths (as in LCLS). A Fresnel diffraction model was provided in [4] for the SR process only. Here we outline the fundamental physical concepts of Spontaneous Superradiadce (SR), Stimulated Superradiance (ST-SR), Taper-Enhanced Superradiance (TES) and Taper-Enhanced Stimulated Superradiance Amplification (TESSA), and compare their Fourier and Phasor formulations in the radiation mode expansion and free-diffraction models. Detailed further analysis can provide better design concepts of high power FELs and improved tapering strategy for enhancing the power of seeded short wavelength FELs
1. A. Gover, PR ST-AB 8, (030701) ; (030702) (2005)
2. J. Duris et al., arxiv 2015.
3. Y. Jiao et al., PR ST-AB 15 050704 2012
4. E.A. Schneidmiller, M.V. Yurkov, PR ST-AB 18, 030705 (2015)
 
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