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TY - UNPB AU - Yang, X. AU - Giannessi, L. ED - Bishofberger, Kip:Carlsten, Bruce (LANL, Los Alamos, NM, USA)[ORCID:0000-0001-5619-907X] ED - Schaa, Volker RW TI - First Demonstration of Fully Coherent Super-Radiant Pulses From a Short-Pulse Seeded FEL J2 - Proc. of FEL2017, Santa Fe, NM, USA, August 20-25, 2017 C1 - Santa Fe, NM, USA T2 - International Free Electron Laser Conference T3 - 38 LA - english AB - The generation of a single X-ray isolated spike of radiation with peak power at the GW level and femtosecond temporal duration represents an almost unique opportunity for time-resolved non-linear spectroscopy. Such a condition is met by an FEL operating in superradiance. The resulting pulse has a self-similar shape deriving from the combined dynamics of saturation and slippage of the radiation over fresh electrons. The pulse is followed by a long pedestal, resulting from the complex dynamics occurring in the tail after saturation. This tail consists of a train of pulses with both transverse and longitudinal coherence and decaying amplitudes. We analyze the dynamical conditions on slippage and pulse length leading to the formation of the main pulse and the following tail. We study the correlation of the tail structure with the longitudinal phase space of the e-beam and provide recipes to partially suppress it near the background level leading to the fully coherent super-radiant pulse. Our analytical prediction of the intensity peak of the leading pulse evolving along the undulator before, during, and after becoming a super-radiant pulse agrees well with the simulations. PB - JACoW CP - Geneva, Switzerland ER -