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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.  
MOPCH027 Metal Film Photocathodes for High Brightness Electron Injectors 104
 
  • G. Gatti, L. Cultrera, F. Tazzioli, C. Vicario
    INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma)
  • A. Fiori, S. Orlanducci
    Università di Roma II Tor Vergata, Roma
  • J. Langner, M. S. Sadowski, P. Strzyzewski
    The Andrzej Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies, Centre Swierk, Swierk/Otwock
  • A. Perrone
    INFN-Lecce, Lecce
  • C. Ristoscu
    INFLPR, Bucharest - Magurele
 
  Advanced high brightness injectors require photocathodes with fast response,high quantum efficiency and good surface uniformity. Both Mg films deposited by laser ablation and Pb films deposited by vacuum arc could satisfy these requirements. Their emission and morphology are compared.  
MOPCH028 Status of the SPARX FEL Project 107
 
  • C. Vaccarezza, D. Alesini, M. Bellaveglia, S. Bertolucci, M.E. Biagini, R. Boni, M. Boscolo, M. Castellano, A. Clozza, L. Cultrera, G. Di Pirro, A. Drago, A. Esposito, M. Ferrario, D. Filippetto, V. Fusco, A. Gallo, A. Ghigo, S. Guiducci, M. Migliorati, L. Palumbo, L. Pellegrino, M.A. Preger, C. Sanelli, M. Serio, F. Sgamma, B. Spataro, A. Stella, F. Tazzioli, M. Vescovi, C. Vicario
    INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma)
  • F. Alessandria, A. Bacci, F. Broggi, C. De Martinis, D. Giove, M. Mauri
    INFN/LASA, Segrate (MI)
  • L. Catani, E. Chiadroni, A. Cianchi, C. Schaerf
    INFN-Roma II, Roma
  • S. Cialdi, C. Maroli, V. Petrillo, M. Rome, L. Serafini
    INFN-Milano, Milano
  • F. Ciocci, G. Dattoli, A. Doria, F. Flora, G.P. Gallerano, L. Giannessi, E. Giovenale, G. Messina, P.L. Ottaviani, G. Parisi, L. Picardi, M. Quattromini, A. Renieri, C. Ronsivalle
    ENEA C.R. Frascati, Frascati (Roma)
  • P. Emma
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California
  • L. Ficcadenti, A. Mostacci
    Rome University La Sapienza, Roma
  • M. Mattioli
    Università di Roma I La Sapienza, Roma
  • P. Musumeci
    INFN-Roma, Roma
  • S. Reiche, J.B. Rosenzweig
    UCLA, Los Angeles, California
 
  The SPARX project consists in an X-ray-FEL facility jointly supported by MIUR (Research Department of Italian Government), Regione Lazio, CNR, ENEA, INFN and Rome University Tor Vergata. It is the natural extension of the ongoing activities of the SPARC collaboration. The aim is the generation of electron beams characterized by ultra-high peak brightness at the energy of 1 and 2 GeV, for the first and the second phase respectively. The beam is expected to drive a single pass FEL experiment in the range of 13.5-6 nm and 6-1.5 nm, at 1 GeV and 2 GeV respectively, both in SASE and SEEDED FEL configurations. A hybrid scheme of RF and magnetic compression will be adopted, based on the expertise achieved at the SPARC high brightness photoinjector presently under commissioning at Frascati INFN-LNF Laboratories. The use of superconducting and exotic undulator sections will be also exploited. In this paper we report the progress of the collaboration together with start to end simulation results based on a combined scheme of RF compression techniques.  
MOPCH029 Status of the SPARC Project 110
 
  • P. Musumeci, D. Levi, M. Mattioli, G. Medici, D. Pelliccia, M. Petrarca
    Università di Roma I La Sapienza, Roma
  • D. Alesini, M. Bellaveglia, S. Bertolucci, R. Boni, M. Boscolo, M. Castellano, A. Clozza, L. Cultrera, G. Di Pirro, A. Drago, A. Esposito, M. Ferrario, L. Ficcadenti, D. Filippetto, V. Fusco, A. Gallo, G. Gatti, A. Ghigo, M. Incurvati, C. Ligi, F. Marcellini, M. Migliorati, A. Mostacci, L. Palumbo, L. Pellegrino, M.A. Preger, R. Ricci, C. Sanelli, M. Serio, F. Sgamma, B. Spataro, A. Stecchi, A. Stella, F. Tazzioli, C. Vaccarezza, M. Vescovi, C. Vicario
    INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma)
  • F. Alessandria, A. Bacci, I. Boscolo, F. Broggi, S. Cialdi, C. De Martinis, D. Giove, C. Maroli, M. Mauri, V. Petrillo, M. Rome, A.R. Rossi, L. Serafini
    INFN-Milano, Milano
  • L. Catani, E. Chiadroni, A. Cianchi, E. Gabrielli, S. Tazzari
    INFN-Roma II, Roma
  • F. Ciocci, G. Dattoli, A. Dipace, A. Doria, G.P. Gallerano, L. Giannessi, E. Giovenale, G. Messina, P.L. Ottaviani, S. Pagnutti, L. Picardi, M. Quattromini, A. Renieri, G. Ronci, C. Ronsivalle, M. Rosetti, E. Sabia, M. Sassi, A. Torre, A. Zucchini
    ENEA C.R. Frascati, Frascati (Roma)
  • A. Perrone
    INFN-Lecce, Lecce
  • S. Reiche, J.B. Rosenzweig, G. Travish
    UCLA, Los Angeles, California
 
  The SPARC Project is starting the commissioning of its photo-injector. RF gun, RF sources, RF network and control, power supplies, emittance meter, beam diagnostics and control to measure the RF gun beam are installed. The photocathode drive laser has been characterized in terms of pulse shape and quality. We expect to conduct beam measurements at RF gun exit in the next future and consequently to start the installation of accelerating sections. The design of the 12 m undulator for the FEL experiment has been completed and the first undulator section out of 6 is under construction: we expect to characterize it at Frascati ENEA laboratory within the next months. SPARC as a facility will host FEL experiments using SASE, seeding and non-linear resonant harmonics. Additional R&D on X-band and S-band structures for velocity bunching are in progress, as well as studies on new photocathode materials and exotic undulator designs. We also present studies on solenoid field defects, beam based alignments, exotic electron bunch production (blow-out of short laser pulses or intensity modulated laser pulses). The possible use of segmented superconducting micro-undulators will be discussed too.  
WEPLS021 The PLASMONX Project for Advanced Beam Physics Experiments 2439
 
  • L. Serafini, A. Bacci, R. Bonifacio, M. Cola, C. Maroli, V. Petrillo, N. Piovella, R. Pozzoli, M. Rome, A.R. Rossi, L. Volpe
    INFN-Milano, Milano
  • D. Alesini, M. Bellaveglia, S. Bertolucci, R. Boni, M. Boscolo, M. Castellano, A. Clozza, G. Di Pirro, A. Drago, A. Esposito, M. Ferrario, L. Ficcadenti, D. Filippetto, V. Fusco, A. Gallo, G. Gatti, A. Ghigo, M. Incurvati, C. Ligi, F. Marcellini, M. Migliorati, A. Mostacci, L. Palumbo, L. Pellegrino, M.A. Preger, R. Ricci, C. Sanelli, M. Serio, F. Sgamma, B. Spataro, A. Stecchi, A. Stella, F. Tazzioli, C. Vaccarezza, M. Vescovi, C. Vicario
    INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma)
  • F. Alessandria, F. Broggi, C. De Martinis, D. Giove, M. Mauri
    INFN/LASA, Segrate (MI)
  • W. Baldeschi, A. Barbini, M. Galimberti, A. Giulietti, A. Gizzi, P. Koester, L. Labate, S. Laville, A. Rossi, P. Tomassini
    CNR/IPP, Pisa
  • U. Bottigli, B. Golosio, P.N. Oliva, A. Poggiu, S. Stumbo
    INFN-Cagliari, Monserrato (Cagliari)
  • C.A. Cecchetti, D. Giulietti
    UNIPI, Pisa
  • D. Levi, M. Mattioli, G. Medici, D. Pelliccia, M. Petrarca
    Università di Roma I La Sapienza, Roma
  • P. Musumeci
    INFN-Roma, Roma
 
  The Project PLASMONX is well progressing into its design phase and has entered as well its second phase of procurements for main components. The project foresees the installation at LNF of a Ti:Sa laser system (peak power > 170 TW), synchronized to the high brightness electron beam produced by the SPARC photo-injector. The advancement of the procurement of such a laser system is reported, as well as the construction plans of a new building at LNF to host a dedicated laboratory for high intensity photon beam experiments (High Intensity Laser Laboratory). Several experiments are foreseen using this complex facility, mainly in the high gradient plasma acceleration field and in the field of mono-chromatic ultra-fast X-ray pulse generation via Thomson back-scattering. We present an innovative scheme of external injection of the SPARC beam into laser wake-field driven plasma waves. Detailed numerical simulations have been carried out to study the generation of short electron bunches, to be injected into plasma waves driven with adiabatically variable density in order to compress the bunch at injection and further accelerate it by preserving a small energy spread and good beam quality.  
THPCH151 Commissioning of the Laser System for SPARC Photoinjector 3146
 
  • C. Vicario, M. Bellaveglia, D. Filippetto, A. Gallo, G. Gatti, A. Ghigo
    INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma)
  • P. Musumeci, M. Petrarca
    INFN-Roma, Roma
 
  In this paper we report the commissioning of the SPARC photoinjector laser system. In the high brightness photoinjector the quality of the electron beam is directly related to the features of the laser pulse. In fact the temporal pulse shape, the temporization and the transverse distribution of the electron beam is determined by the incoming laser pulse. The SPARC laser system is based on an amplified Ti:Sapphire active medium and the pulse shape is imposed by a programmable acousto-optics dispersive filter. The transfer-line has been designed to reduce the angular jitter and to preserve to the cathode the temporal and spatial features of the laser pulse. The laser system has been integrated with the accelerator apparatus. The diagnostics and the control system has been completed. We present the measured performances and the simulations we carried out.  
THPCH153 Production of Temporally Flat Top UV Laser Pulses for SPARC Photoinjector 3152
 
  • M. Petrarca, P. Musumeci
    INFN-Roma, Roma
  • I. Boscolo, S. Cialdi
    INFN-Milano, Milano
  • G. Gatti, A. Ghigo, C. Vicario
    INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma)
  • M. Mattioli
    Università di Roma I La Sapienza, Roma
 
  In the SPARC photoinjector, the amplified Ti:Sa laser system is conceived to produce an UV flat top pulse profile required to reduce the beam emittance by minimizing the non-linear space charge effects in the photoelectrons pulse. Beam dynamic simulations indicate that the optimal pulse distribution must be flat top in space and time with 10 ps FWHM duration, 1 ps of rise and fall time and a limited ripple on the plateau. In a previous work~\cite{loose} it was demonstrated the possibility to use a programmable dispersive acousto-optics (AO) filter to achieve pulse profile close to the optimal one. In this paper we report the characterization of the effects of harmonics conversion on the pulse temporal profile. A technique to overcome the harmonics conversion distortions on the laser pulses at the fundamental wavelength in order to obtain the target pulse profile is explained too. Measurements and simulations in the temporal and spectral domain at the fundamental laser wavelength and at the second and third harmonics are presented in order to validate our work. It is also described a time diagnostic device for the UV pulses.

*H. Loos et al. "Temporal E-Beam Shaping in an S-Band Accelerator", Proc. Particle Accelerator Conference, p.642, 2005, Knoxville, TN, USA.

 
THPLS098 Optimum Beam Creation in Photoinjectors Using Space-charge Expansion 0
 
  • J.B. Rosenzweig, A.M. Cook, M.P. Dunning, C. Pellegrini
    UCLA, Los Angeles, California
  • M. Boscolo, M. Ferrario, D. Filippetto, L. Palumbo, C. Vicario
    INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma)
  • P. Musumeci
    INFN-Roma, Roma
 
  It has recently been shown by Luiten* that by illuminating a photocathode with an ultra-short laser pulse of appropriate transverse profile, a uniform density, ellipsoidally shaped bunch is dynamically formed, which then has linear space-charge fields in all dimensions inside of the bunch. We study here this process, and its marriage to the standard emittance compensation scenario that is implemented in most modern photoinjectors. It is seen that the two processes are compatible, with simulations indicating that a very high brightness beam can be obtained. The scheme has produced stimulus for an experiment at the SPARC injector at Frascati in 2006. We review preparations for this experiment, and discuss the measurable quantities and their appropriate diagnosis, including the time-resolved observation of ellipsoidal beam shape at low energy. A scheme based on gating of Cerenkov radiation produced at an Aerogel for time-resolved measurements is proposed. Future measurements at high energy based on fs resolution RF sweepers are discussed. The prospects for using the very low longitudinal emittance beam in a future bunch compressor for producing 10 micron long beams are evaluated.

*O. J. Luiten et al. Physical Review Letters, 93, 094802-1 (2004).