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Bougeard, M.

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MOPC018 Seeding the FEL of the SCSS Test Accelerator with the 5th Harmonic of a Ti: Sa Laser Produced in Gases 109
 
  • G. Lambert, O. V. Chubar, M.-E. Couprie
    SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette
  • M. Bougeard, B. Carré, D. Garzella, O. B. Gobert, M. Labat, H. Merdji, P. Salieres
    CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette
  • T. Hara, T. Ishikawa, H. Kitamura, T. Shintake, M. Yabashi
    RIKEN/SPring-8, Hyogo
  • K. Tahara, Y. T. Tanaka, T. Tanikawa
    RIKEN Spring-8 Harima, Hyogo
  
  We present the strong amplification of the 5th harmonic of a Ti: Sa laser (10 Hz, 100 fs) generated in a Xe gas cell, i.e. 160 nm, and the generation of intense and coherent odd and even Non Linear Harmonics (NLH) from 80 nm to 23 nm. The experiment has been carried out on the SCSS (SPring-8 Compact SASE Source, Japan) Test Accelerator FEL. This facility is mainly based on a thermionic cathode electron gun, a C-band LINAC (5712 MHz, 35 MV/m) and an in-vacuum undulator (15 mm of period, 2 sections of 4.5 m length). The external source is properly focused in the first undulator section in order to efficiently interact with the electron beam (150 MeV, 10 Hz, 0.5-3 ps). In case of high peak current mode, the 160 nm seed light is amplified by a factor of 7000 in the first undulator section. Moreover, the amplification can be observed even for very low HHG seed level. This result opens new perspectives for seeding at short wavelengths in the XUV to soft X-Ray region. Association with NLH, HGHG (High Gain Harmonic Generation) and/or cascade schemes would allow the generation of fully coherent X-ray radiations from the “water window” spectral range to the Angstrom region.  
WEPC075 Recent Results and Future Perspectives of the SPARC Project 2169
 
  • M. Ferrario, D. Alesini, M. Bellaveglia, R. Boni, M. Boscolo, M. Castellano, E. Chiadroni, A. Clozza, L. Cultrera, G. Di Pirro, A. Drago, A. Esposito, L. Ficcadenti, D. Filippetto, V. Fusco, A. Gallo, G. Gatti, A. Ghigo, B. Marchetti, A. Marinelli, C. Marrelli, E. Pace, L. Palumbo, L. Pellegrino, R. Ricci, U. Rotundo, C. Sanelli, F. Sgamma, B. Spataro, F. Tazzioli, S. Tomassini, C. Vaccarezza, M. Vescovi, C. Vicario
    INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma)
  • A. Bacci, I. Boscolo, F. Broggi, F. Castelli, S. Cialdi, C. De Martinis, D. Giove, C. Maroli, V. Petrillo, A. R. Rossi, L. Serafini
    INFN-Milano, Milano
  • M. Bougeard, B. Carré, D. Garzella, M. Labat, G. Lambert, H. Merdji, P. Salieres, O. Tchebakoff
    CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette
  • L. Catani
    INFN-Roma II, Roma
  • A. Cianchi
    Università di Roma II Tor Vergata, Roma
  • F. Ciocci, G. Dattoli, A. Dipace, A. Doria, G. P. Gallerano, L. Giannessi, E. Giovenale, G. L. Orlandi, S. Pagnutti, A. Petralia, M. Quattromini, C. Ronsivalle, E. Sabia, I. P. Spassovsky, V. Surrenti
    ENEA C. R. Frascati, Frascati (Roma)
  • M.-E. Couprie
    SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette
  • M. Mattioli, M. Serluca
    INFN-Roma, Roma
  • M. Migliorati, A. Mostacci
    Rome University La Sapienza, Roma
  • M. Petrarca
    Università di Roma I La Sapienza, Roma
  • J. B. Rosenzweig
    UCLA, Los Angeles, California
  
  The SPARC project foresees the realization of a high brightness photo-injector to produce a 150-200 MeV electron beam to drive 500 nm FEL experiments in various configurations, a Thomson backscattering source and a plasma accelerator experiment. The SPARC photoinjector is also the test facility for the recently approved VUV FEL project named SPARX. As a first stage of the commissioning a complete characterization of the photoinjector has been accomplished with a detailed study of the emittance compensation process downstream the gun-solenoid system and the demonstration of the emittance oscillation in the drift. The second stage of the commissioning, that is currently underway, foresees a detailed analysis of the beam matching with the linac in order to confirm the theoretically prediction of emittance compensation based on the “invariant envelope” matching and the demonstration of the “velocity bunching” technique in the linac. In this paper we report the experimental results obtained so far and the scientific program for the near future.