Author: Miltchev, V.
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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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