IBIC2014 - List of Authors (Ackermann, S.)

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MOPF22	Simultaneous Operation of Two FEL Undulator Beamlines at FLASH	103
	S. Ackermann, V. Ayvazyan, B. Faatz, E. Hass, K. Klose, S. Pfeiffer, M. Scholz, S. Schreiber DESY, Hamburg, Germany
	The FLASH FEL User Facility at DESY (Hamburg) is driven by a Photocathode RF gun and superconducting RF structures, producing up to 800 electron bunches per train with a repetition rate of 10 Hz. Because not all user experiments need the full pulse train (8000 FEL pulses per second), part of the electron bunches can be deflected into a second beamline, which can simultaneously deliver FEL pulses with different parameters to a second user experiment. To realize this possibility, the FLASH facility has been upgraded with a second undulator line and a second experimental Hall. In this contribution, we will present the new layout of the FLASH facility and the first results to operate it with different parameter sets. We will show present results achieved during the commissioning of the new beamline. Finally, we will give an outlook of further commissioning plans and user operation. S. Ackermann for the FLASH II Team
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TUPF25	Characterization of the Laser Beam for HHG Seeding	380
	S. Ackermann, B. Faatz DESY, Hamburg, Germany V. Miltchev Uni HH, Hamburg, Germany
	Recently free-electron laser (FEL) facilities around the world have shown that the direct seeding approach can enhance the spectral, temporal and coherence properties of the emitted radiation as well as reducing the fluctuations in arrival time and output energy. To achieve this, a photon pulse of the desired wavelength ("seed") is overlapped transversely and temporally with the electrons in the undulator to start up the FEL process from a defined radiation pulse rather than from noise. To benefit from the advantages of this technique, the energy of the seed has to exceed the energy of the spontaneous emission. The ratio between these two energies is strongly influenced by the seed beam properties. In this contribution, we will present simulations on the achieveable power contrast in dependence on the beam quality of the seed, and compare the results to the experimental data of the seeded FEL experiment ("sFLASH") at DESY, Hamburg. Additionally we show up a way of creating FEL seed pulses for simulation purposes from Hermite-Gaussian generating functions.
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Simultaneous Operation of Two FEL Undulator Beamlines at FLASH

103

S. Ackermann, V. Ayvazyan, B. Faatz, E. Hass, K. Klose, S. Pfeiffer, M. Scholz, S. Schreiber
DESY, Hamburg, Germany

The FLASH FEL User Facility at DESY (Hamburg) is driven by a Photocathode RF gun and superconducting RF structures, producing up to 800 electron bunches per train with a repetition rate of 10 Hz. Because not all user experiments need the full pulse train (8000 FEL pulses per second), part of the electron bunches can be deflected into a second beamline, which can simultaneously deliver FEL pulses with different parameters to a second user experiment. To realize this possibility, the FLASH facility has been upgraded with a second undulator line and a second experimental Hall. In this contribution, we will present the new layout of the FLASH facility and the first results to operate it with different parameter sets. We will show present results achieved during the commissioning of the new beamline. Finally, we will give an outlook of further commissioning plans and user operation.
S. Ackermann for the FLASH II Team

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TUPF25

Characterization of the Laser Beam for HHG Seeding

380

S. Ackermann, B. Faatz
DESY, Hamburg, Germany
V. Miltchev
Uni HH, Hamburg, Germany

Recently free-electron laser (FEL) facilities around the world have shown that the direct seeding approach can enhance the spectral, temporal and coherence properties of the emitted radiation as well as reducing the fluctuations in arrival time and output energy. To achieve this, a photon pulse of the desired wavelength ("seed") is overlapped transversely and temporally with the electrons in the undulator to start up the FEL process from a defined radiation pulse rather than from noise. To benefit from the advantages of this technique, the energy of the seed has to exceed the energy of the spontaneous emission. The ratio between these two energies is strongly influenced by the seed beam properties. In this contribution, we will present simulations on the achieveable power contrast in dependence on the beam quality of the seed, and compare the results to the experimental data of the seeded FEL experiment ("sFLASH") at DESY, Hamburg. Additionally we show up a way of creating FEL seed pulses for simulation purposes from Hermite-Gaussian generating functions.

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