Author: Ratner, D.F.
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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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WEP003 Recent Understanding and Improvements of the LCLS Injector 592
 
  • F. Zhou, D.K. Bohler, Y. Ding, S. Gilevich, Z. Huang, H. Loos, D.F. Ratner
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
 
  Funding: U.S. DOE contract No. DE-AC02-76SF00515.
Ultraviolet drive laser and copper photocathode are the key systems for reliably delivering <0.4 micron of emittance and high brightness free electron laser (FEL) at the linac coherent light source (LCLS). Characterizing, optimizing and controlling laser distributions in both spatial and temporal directions are important for ultra-low emittance generation. Spatial truncated Gaussian laser profile has been demonstrated to produce better emittance than a spatial uniform beam. Sensitivity of the spatial laser distribution for the emittance is measured and analysed. Stacking two 2-ps Gaussian laser beams significantly improves emittance and eventually FEL performance at the LCLS in comparison to a single 2-ps Gaussian laser pulse. In addition, recent observations at the LCLS show that the micro-bunching effect depends strongly on the cathode spot locations. The dependence of the micro-bunching and FEL performance on the cathode spot location is mapped and discussed.
 
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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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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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