02 Synchrotron Light Sources and FELs
T25 Lasers
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WEPRO050 Cryogenically Cooled 1J, ps Yb:YAG Slab Laser for High-brightness Laser-Compton X-Ray Source 2056
 
  • A. Endo, M. Chyla, T. Miura, T. Mocek, P. Sikocinski
    Czech Republic Academy of Sciences, Institute of Physics, Prague, Czech Republic
  • K. Sakaue, M. Washio
    RISE, Tokyo, Japan
 
  Funding: This work benefitted from the support of the Czech Republic’s Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports to the HiLASE and DPSSLasers projects cofinanced from the European Regional Development Fund.
Laser Compton X-ray source is studied as an accelerator-laser hybrid technology to realize a compact source from soft X-ray to gamma ray*. It is critical to design a solid state laser of 1J pulse energy with 1ps pulse length, and a high beam quality for 10 microμm diameter interaction. The required M2 is less than 1.5 in a standard normal incidence configuration. X-ray total photon number is ~109 with 1nC, 3ps 43MeV electron bunch for each shot. HiLASE project is committed to make a progress in the field of new generation solid state laser based on Yb-doped materials, to deliver 1J at 120Hz of 1-2ps with M2<1.5. The laser system consists of a seed fiber laser and two amplifier stages, an Yb:YAG thin disk regenerative amplifier, and a cryogenically cooled single slab booster amplifier. We have obtained output energy of 45mJ from the regenerative amplifier at 1 kHz with M2 <1.2. Booster amplifier is designed by a conduction cooling to build a compact system. Gain bandwidth was 1.2nm at 120K, enough to obtain 1-2ps pulses. Improvement of the crystal holder and the experimental results are presented to indicate the available pulse energy and M2.
*Endo, A. et.al. “Characterization of the monochromatic laser Compton X-ray beam with picosecond and femtosecond pulse widths”, Proceedings SPIE 4502, pp100-108 (2001)
 
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WEPRO051 Commissioning of the Laser Beam Transport for the Femto-slicing Project at the Synchrotron SOLEIL 2059
 
  • P. Prigent, M.-E. Couprie, Ph. Hollander, M. Labat, C. Laulhé, A. Lestrade, J. Lüning, J.L. Marlats, P. Morin, A. Nadji, S. Ravy, J.P. Ricaud, M.G. Silly, F. Sirotti, M.-A. Tordeux, D. Zerbib
    SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
 
  The aim of the Femto-Slicing project at SOLEIL is to generate 100 fs X-rays pulses on two beamlines, CRISTAL and TEMPO in a first step, for pump-probe experiments in the hard and soft X-rays regions and possibly on two other beamlines in the future. Two fs lasers are currently in operation on TEMPO and CRISTAL for pump-probe experiments on the ps time scale enabling time resolved photoemission and photodiffraction studies. The Femto-Slicing project is based on the fs laser of the CRISTAL beamline, which can be adjusted to deliver 5 to 3 mJ pulses of 30 fs duration at 1 to 2.5 kHz respectively. The laser beam is separated in three branches: one delivering about 2 mJ to the modulator Wiggler and the other ones delivering the remaining energy to the TEMPO and CRISTAL experiments. This layout will yield natural synchronization between IR laser pump and X-ray probe pulses, only affected by drift associated with beam transport. In this paper, we present the current status of the Femto-Slicing project at SOLEIL, with particular emphasis on the characterization of the laser beam transport to the wiggler, to the CRISTAL beamline, and with the first results that will be obtained.  
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WEPRO052 The ThomX Project Status 2062
 
  • A. Variola, D. Auguste, A. Blin, J. Bonis, S. Bouaziz, C. Bruni, K. Cassou, I. Chaikovska, S. Chancé, V. Chaumat, R. Chiche, P. Cornebise, O. Dalifard, N. Delerue, T. Demma, I.V. Drebot, K. Dupraz, N. El Kamchi, M. El Khaldi, P. Gauron, A. Gonnin, E. Guerard, J. Haissinski, M. Jacquet, D. Jehanno, M. Jouvin, E. Jules, F. Labaye, M. Lacroix, M. Langlet, D. Le Guidec, P. Lepercq, R. Marie, J.C. Marrucho, A. Martens, B. Mercier, E. Mistretta, H. Monard, Y. Peinaud, A. Pérus, B. Pieyre, E. Plaige, C. Prevost, T. Roulet, R. Roux, V. Soskov, A. Stocchi, C. Vallerand, A. Vermes, F. Wicek, Y. Yan, J.F. Zhang, Z.F. Zomer
    LAL, Orsay, France
  • P. Alexandre, C. Benabderrahmane, F. Bouvet, L. Cassinari, M.-E. Couprie, P. Deblay, Y. Dietrich, M. Diop, M.E. El Ajjouri, M.P. Gacoin, C. Herbeaux, N. Hubert, M. Labat, P. Lebasque, A. Lestrade, R. Lopes, A. Loulergue, P. Marchand, F. Marteau, D. Muller, A. Nadji, R. Nagaoka, J.-P. Pollina, F. Ribeiro, M. Ros, R. Sreedharan
    SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
  • A. Bravin, G. Le Duc, J. Susini
    ESRF, Grenoble, France
  • C. Bruyère, A. Cobessi, W. Del Net, J.L. Hazemann, J.L. Hodeau, P. Jeantet, J. Lacipière, O. Proux
    Institut NEEL, Grenoble, France
  • E. Cormier, J. Lhermite
    CELIA, Talence, France
  • L. De Viguerie, H. Rousselière, P. Walter
    LAMS, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Ivry Sur Seine, France
  • H. Elleaume, F. Esteve
    INSERM, Grenoble Institut des Neurosciences, La Tronche, France
  • J.M. Horodinsky, N. Pauwels, P. Robert
    CNRS (IRSD), Orsay, France
  • S. Sierra
    TED, Velizy, France
 
  Funding: Work supported by the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche as part of the program EQUIPEX under reference ANR-10-EQPX-51, the Ile de France region, CNRS-IN2P3 and Université Paris Sud XI
A collaboration of seven research institutes and an industry has been set up for the ThomX project, a compact Compton Backscattering Source (CBS) based in Orsay – France. After a period of study and definition of the machine performances a complete description of all the systems has been provided. The infrastructures work is started and the main systems are in the call for tender phase. In this paper we will illustrate the definitive machine parameters and components characteristics. We will also update the results of the different ongoing R&D on optical resonators, fast power supplies for the injection kickers and on the electron gun.
 
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WEPRO053 All-optical Free Electron Lasers using Travelling-wave Thomson Scattering 2065
 
  • K. Steiniger, M.H. Bussmann, A.D. Debus, A. Irman, A. Jochmann, R.G. Pausch, U. Schramm
    Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), Institute of Radiation Physics, Dresden, Germany
  • T.E. Cowan
    HZDR, Dresden, Germany
 
  In Travelling-Wave Thomson Scattering (TWTS) the pulse front of a high-power, short-pulse laser is tilted and the dispersion of the pulse is controlled in such a way that electrons can interact over a long distance with a quasi-monochromatic electromagnetic wave. We present a complete three dimensional analytic time-dependent description of the TWTS field and use this description to derive an analytic FEL equation that shows that TWTS indeed provides for an all-optical FEL. We further derive conditions for optimum operation of the TWTS FEL, showing that EUV and XUV FEL sources are in reach using Petawatt lasers and conventional few-hundred MeV electron sources. Future laser-wakefield accelerators could potentially drive all-optical TWTS-FELs in the X-ray and beyond. TWTS itself is optimum to provide full flexibility in terms of the wavelength and bandwidth of the scattered radiation, allowing for application-optimized, highly-brilliant Thomson Scattering sources for a broad range of wavelengths from the EUV to the gamma ray spectral region.  
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WEPRO055 Development of a Quasi 3-D Ellipsoidal Photo Cathode Laser System for PITZ 2069
 
  • T. Rublack, M. Khojoyan, M. Krasilnikov, F. Stephan
    DESY Zeuthen, Zeuthen, Germany
  • A.V. Andrianov, E. Gacheva, E. Khazanov, A. Poteomkin, V. Zelenogorsky
    IAP/RAS, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
  • I. Hartl, S. Schreiber
    DESY, Hamburg, Germany
  • E. Syresin
    JINR, Dubna, Moscow Region, Russia
 
  Funding: Funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) project 05K10CHE in the framework of the German-Russian collaboration "Development and Use of Accelerator-Based Photon Sources".
3-D ellipsoidal photo cathode laser pulses are considered as the next step in optimization of photo injectors required for a successful operation of linac based free electron lasers. Significant improvements in electron beam emittance obtained from the beam dynamics simulations using such laser pulses compared to the conventional cylindrical pulses motivated the experimental studies in order to develop a laser system for quasi 3-D ellipsoidal pulses. The Institute of Applied Physics (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia) in collaboration with the Joint Institute of Nuclear Research (Dubna, Russia) and the Photo Injector Test facility at DESY, Zeuthen site (PITZ) is developing such a photo cathode laser system. Experimental tests of the laser system with photoelectron beam production are planned at PITZ. The laser pulse shaping is realized using the spatial light modulator technique. The laser system is capable of pulse train generation. First cross-correlation measurements were done demonstrating in principle the ability to generate and measure quasi ellipsoidal laser pulses. In this contribution the overall set-up, working principle and the actual progress of the development will be reported.
 
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WEPRO056 Development of an Optical Resonant Cavity for the LCS Experiment at cERL 2072
 
  • T. Akagi, Y. Honda, A. Kosuge, J. Urakawa
    KEK, Ibaraki, Japan
  • R. Hajima, M. Mori, R. Nagai, T. Shizuma
    JAEA, Ibaraki-ken, Japan
 
  A nondestructive assay system of isotopes by quasi-monochromatic gamma-rays by laser Compton scattering (LCS) is under development. In order to demonstrate the accelerator and laser performance required for the gamma-ray source, an LCS experiment is planned at Compact ERL (cERL) at KEK. An optical resonant cavity is under construction for the LCS experiment. The new optical cavity is designed by combination of two bow-tie cavities to achieve fast optical polarization switching. The performance of the optical cavity is presented in detail.  
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