Author: Marinelli, A.
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MOP078 Sub-Radiance and Enhanced-Radiance of Undulator Radiation from a Correlated Electron Beam 221
 
  • R. Ianconescu
    Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Ramat Gan, Israel
  • A. Gover
    University of Tel-Aviv, Faculty of Engineering, Tel-Aviv, Israel
  • E. Hemsing, A. Marinelli
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
  • A. Nause
    UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
 
  Funding: We acknowledge the United States - Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF)
The radiant intensity of Synchrotron Undulator Radiation (UR) depends on the current noise spectrum of the electron beam injected into the wiggler. The current noise spectrum and intensity can be controlled (suppressed or enhanced relative to the shot-noise level) by the effect of collective longitudinal space charge interaction in a drift and dispersion sections[1]. This new control lever is of significant interest for possible control of SASE in FEL, since UR is the incoherent seed of SASE. Thus, control of spontaneous UR is a way to enhance the coherence of seeded FEL [2], or alternatively, obtain enhanced radiation from a cascade noise-amplified electron beam [3]. The dependence of UR emission on the current noise is primarily a result of the longitudinal correlation of the e-beam distribution due to the longitudinal space charge effect. However, at short wavelengths, 3-D effects of transverse correlation and effects of emittance disrupts the proportionality relation between the UR intensity and e-beam current noise. We present analysis and simulation of UR subradiance/superradiance under various ranges of beam parameters, and compare to recent experimental observations [1].
[1] D. Ratner et al., PRST - ACCELERATORS AND BEAMS 18, 050703 (2015)
[2] E. Allaria et al., Nat. Photonics 7, 913 (2013)
[3] A. Marinelli et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 264802 (27 June 2013)
 
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WEC04
Subradiant Spontaneous Undulator Emission through Collective Suppression of Shot Noise  
 
  • D.F. Ratner, E. Hemsing, A. Marinelli
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
  • A. Gover
    University of Tel-Aviv, Faculty of Engineering, Tel-Aviv, Israel
  • A. Nause
    UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
 
  The phenomenon of Dicke's subradiance, in which the collective properties of a system suppress radiation, has received broad interest in atomic physics, but can also be applied to relativistic electron beams. The resulting "quiet" beam generates less spontaneous undulator radiation than emitted even by a random shot noise beam. Quiet beams could have diverse accelerator applications, including lowering power requirements for seeded FELs. Here we present recent experimental observations at the Next Linear Collider Test Accelerator and discuss prospects for pushing the phenomenon to X-ray wavelengths.  
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WEP004 Energy Spread Constraints on Field Suppression in a Reverse Tapered Undulator 597
 
  • J.P. MacArthur, Z. Huang, A.A. Lutman, A. Marinelli, H.-D. Nuhn
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
 
  A 3.2 m variable polarization Delta undulator[1] has been installed at the end of the LCLS undulator line. The Delta undulator acts an an afterburner in this configuration, using bunching from upstream planar undulators to produce radiation with arbitrary polarization. To optimize the degree of polarization from this device, a reverse taper[2] has been proposed to suppress background radiation produced in upstream undulators while still microbunching the beam. Here we extend previous work on free electron lasers with a slowly varying undulator parameter[3] to show there is a strong energy spread dependence to the maximum allowable detune from resonance. At LCLS, this energy spread limitation keeps the reverse taper slope in the slowly varying regime and limits the achievable degree of circular polarization.
[1] A. B. Temnykh, PRST-AB, 11, 120702, (2008).
[2] E. A. Schneidmiller and M. V. Yurkov, PRST-AB, 16, 110702, (2013).
[3] Z. Huang and G. Stupakov, PRST-AB, 8, 040702, (2005).
 
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WEP005 Laser Heater Transverse Shaping to Improve Microbunching Suppresion for X-ray FELs 602
 
  • S. Li
    Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
  • A.R. Fry, S. Gilevich, Z. Huang, A. Marinelli, D.F. Ratner, J. Robinson
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
 
  In X-ray free electron lasers (FELs), a small amount of initial density or energy modulation in the electron beam will be amplified through acceleration and bunch compression process. The undesired microbunching on the electron bunch will increase slice energy spread and degrade the FEL performance. The Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) laser heater (LH) system was installed to increase the uncorrelated energy spread in the electron beam in order to suppress the microbunching instability. The distribution of the induced energy spread depends strongly on the transverse profile of the heater laser and has a large effect on the microbunching suppression. In this paper we discuss strategies to shape the laser profile in order to obtain better suppression of microbunching. We present analysis to achieve the Gaussian-like energy spread using a Laguerre-Gaussian laser mode and study the efficiency and alignment tolerance for implementation.  
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WEP023 Two Bunches with ns-Separation with LCLS 634
 
  • F.-J. Decker, S. Gilevich, Z. Huang, H. Loos, A. Marinelli, C.A. Stan, J.L. Turner, Z. Van Hoover, S. Vetter
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
 
  Funding: Work supported by U.S. Department of Energy, Contract DE-AC02-76SF00515.
The Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) delivers typically one bunch. Two bunches are interesting for pump / probe experiments. Two electron bunches with ps separation have been already produced using a split and delay in the laser which produces them on the gun cathode. Here we present the combination of two lasers with a combiner, this allows any time separation and is it limited to RF bucket spacing so far to about 40 ns limited by the setup of our beam containment system. Different beam energies were also provided and the most challenging part was a transverse separation of a few σs for the two beams. Although this setup was very jittery a successful user experiment was accomplished.
 
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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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WEP084 Microbunching-Instability-Induced Sidebands in a Seeded Free-Electron Laser 741
 
  • Z. Zhang
    TUB, Beijing, People's Republic of China
  • Y. Ding, W.M. Fawley, Z. Huang, J. Krzywinski, A.A. Lutman, G. Marcus, A. Marinelli, D.F. Ratner
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
 
  The measured, self-seeded soft X-ray radiation spectrum corresponding to multiple effective undulator lengths of the LCLS exhibits a pedestal-like distribution around the seeded frequency. In the absence of a post-undulator monochromator, this contamination limits the spectral purity and may seriously degrade certain user applications. In general for either externally- or self-seeded FELs, such pedestals may originate with any time-varying property of the electron beam that can modulate the complex gain function. In this paper we specifically focus on the contributions of electron beam microbunching prior to the undulator. We show that both energy and density modulations can induce sidebands in a seeded FEL configuration. Analytic FEL theory and numerical simulations are used to analyze the sideband content relative to the amplified seeded signal, and to compare with experimental results.  
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WED01 Commissioning of the Delta Polarizing Undulator at LCLS 757
 
  • H.-D. Nuhn, S.D. Anderson, R.N. Coffee, Y. Ding, Z. Huang, M. Ilchen, Yu.I. Levashov, A.A. Lutman, J.P. MacArthur, A. Marinelli, S.P. Moeller, F. Peters, Z.R. Wolf
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
  • J. Buck
    XFEL. EU, Hamburg, Germany
  • G. Hartmann, J. Viefhaus
    DESY, Hamburg, Germany
  • A.O. Lindahl
    University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
  • A.B. Temnykh
    Cornell University (CLASSE), Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-Based Sciences and Education, Ithaca, New York, USA
 
  Funding: Work was supported by U.S. DOE, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, under Contract DE-AC02-76SF00515. A.B. Temnykh is supported U.S. National Science Foundation awards DMR-0807731 and DMR-DMR-0936384.
The LCLS generates linearly polarized, intense, high brightness x-ray pulses from planar fixed-gap undulators, which provides only limited taper capability and lacks polarization control. The latter is of great importance for soft x-ray experiments. A new 3.2-m-long compact undulator (based on the Cornell University fixed-gap Delta design) has been developed and installed as the last LCLS undulator segment (U33) in October 2014. The Delta undulator provides full control of the polarization degree and K parameter through array position adjustments. Used on its own, it produces fully polarized spontaneous radiation in the selected state (linear, circular or elliptical). To increase the output power by orders of magnitude, the electron beam is micro-bunched by several (5-15) upstream LCLS undulator segments operated in the linear FEL regime. This micro-bunching process produces horizontally linear polarized (background) radiation. This unwanted radiation component has been greatly reduced by a reversed taper configuration, as suggested by Schneidmiller. Full elimination of the linear polarized component was achieved through spatial separation combined with transverse collimation. The paper will describe the methods tested during commissioning and will also present results of polarization measurements showing high degrees of circular polarization in the soft x-ray wavelength range.
 
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