Author: Xiang, D.
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TUP027 Facility Upgrades for the High Harmonic Echo Program at SLAC's NLCTA 422
 
  • B.W. Garcia, M.P. Dunning, C. Hast, E. Hemsing, T.O. Raubenheimer
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
  • D. Xiang
    Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
 
  The Echo program currently underway at SLAC's NLCTA test accelerator aims to use Echo-Enabled Harmonic Generation (EEHG) to produce considerable bunching in the electron beam at high harmonics of a 2.4um seed laser. The production of such high harmonics in the EUV wavelength range necessitates an efficient radiator and associated light diagnostics to accurately characterize and tune the echo effect. We have installed and commissioned the Visible to Infrared SASE Amplifier (VISA) undulator, a strong focusing two meter long planar undulator of Halbach array design with 1.8cm period length. To characterize the output radiation, we have designed, built, and calibrated a grazing incidence EUV spectrometer which operates between 12-120nm with resolution sufficient to resolve individual harmonics. An absolute wavelength calibration is achieved by using both EEHG and High Gain Harmonic Generation (HGHG) signals from the undulator.  
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Generating Intense Fully Coherent Soft X-Ray Radiation Based on a Laser-Plasma Accelerator  
 
  • C. Feng, H.X. Deng, Z.T. Zhao
    SINAP, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
  • D. Xiang
    Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
 
  Funding: This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (11475250, 11175240, 11275253, and 11322550).
Laser-plasma based accelerator has the potential to dramatically reduce the size and cost of future x-ray light sources to the university-laboratory scale. However, the large energy spread of the laser-plasma accelerated electron beam may hinder the way for short wavelength free-electron laser generation. In this paper, we propose a novel method for directly imprinting strong coherent micro-bunching on the electron beam with large intrinsic energy spread by using a wavefront-tilted conventional optical laser beam and a weak dipole magnet. Theoretical analysis and numerical simulations demonstrate that this technique can be used for the generation of fully coherent femtosecond soft x-ray radiation at gigawatts level with a very short undulator.
 
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