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Tcherbakoff, O.

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MOPCH003 Seeding SPARC Facility with Harmonic Generation in Gases: Preliminary Tests of the Harmonic Generation in Gas Chamber 47
 
  • O. Tcherbakoff, M. Bougeard, P. Breger, B. Carré, D. Garzella, M. Labat, G. Lambert, H. Merdji, P. Monchicourt, P. Salieres
    CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette
  • M.-E. Couprie
    SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette
  • A. Doria, L. Giannessi
    ENEA C.R. Frascati, Frascati (Roma)
  
  In High Gain Harmonic Generation Free Electron Laser configuration, an external light source is injected in the first part of an undulator. The electron-photon interaction leads to a coherent light emission in the second part of the undulator. We propose to use the High Order Harmonic Generation in gases process as the seed for SPARC project (Frascati, Italy). With this facility, the electron beam is accelerated to 200 MeV and passes through an undulator of 6 sections. The preliminary tests on the seeding chambers presented in this paper have been realised at the CEA (Saclay, France). The experiment is based on three vacuum chambers. In the first one, a Ti: Sa laser (800 nm, 2.5 mJ, 50 fs, 10 Hz) is focussed in a 10 Hz pulsed gas jet (Argon or Xenon), producing harmonics of the fundamental. Filters in the second chamber enable the selection of the harmonic (3rd or 5th). Finally, a telescope focuses the harmonic beam at a given position. The whole module is to be moved to the SPARC facility. Appropriate tuning of the undulator gaps will amplify the 3rd and 5th harmonics seeded, as well as non-linear harmonics of those wavelengths, allowing the perspective of producing a FEL at 53 nm  
MOPCH024 Future Seeding Experiments at SPARC 95
 
  • L. Giannessi, S. Ambrogio, F. Ciocci, G. Dattoli, A. Doria, G.P. Gallerano, E. Giovenale, M. Quattromini, A. Renieri, C. Ronsivalle, I.P. Spassovsky
    ENEA C.R. Frascati, Frascati (Roma)
  • D. Alesini, M.E. Biagini, R. Boni, M. Castellano, A. Clozza, A. Drago, M. Ferrario, V. Fusco, A. Gallo, A. Ghigo, M. Migliorati, L. Palumbo, C. Sanelli, F. Sgamma, B. Spataro, S. Tomassini, C. Vaccarezza, C. Vicario
    INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma)
  • M. Bougeard, B. Carré, D. Garzella, M. Labat, G. Lambert, H. Merdji, P. Salieres, O. Tcherbakoff
    CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette
  • M.-E. Couprie
    SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette
  • A. Dipace, E. Sabia
    ENEA Portici, Portici (Napoli)
  • M. Mattioli, P. Musumeci, M. Petrarca
    Università di Roma I La Sapienza, Roma
  • M. Nisoli, G. Sansone, S. Stagira, S. de Silvestri
    Politecnico/Milano, Milano
  • L. P. Poletto, G. T. Tondello
    Univ. degli Studi di Padova, Padova
  • L. Serafini
    INFN-Milano, Milano
  
  Sources based on High order Harmonics Generated in gases (HHG) with high power Ti:Sa lasers pulses represent promising candidates as seed for FEL amplifiers for several reasons, as spatial and temporal coherence, wavelength tunability and spectral range, which extends down to the nm wavelength scale. This communication describes the research work plan that is under implementation at the SPARC FEL facility in the framework of the EUROFEL programme. The main goal of the collaboration is to study and test the amplification and the FEL harmonic generation process of an input seed signal obtained as higher order harmonics generated both in crystals (400 nm and 266 nm) and in gases (266 nm, 160 nm, 114 nm). The SPARC FEL can be configured to test several cascaded FEL layouts that will be analysed in this contribution.