Author: Felber, M.
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MOP043 Plasma Wakefield Accelerated Beams for Demonstration of FEL Gain at FLASHForward 140
 
  • P. Niknejadi, A. Aschikhin, C. Behrens, S. Bohlen, R.T.P. D'Arcy, J. Dale, L. Di Lucchio, M. Felber, B. Foster, L. Goldberg, J.-N. Gruse, Z. Hu, S. Karstensen, A. Knetsch, O. S. Kononenko, V. Libov, K. Ludwig, A. Martinez de la Ossa, F. Marutzky, T.J. Mehrling, J. Osterhoff, C.A.J. Palmer, K. Poder, P. Pourmoussavi, M. Quast, J.-H. Röckemann, J. Schaffran, L. Schaper, H. Schlarb, B. Schmidt, S. Schreiber, S. Schröder, J.-P. Schwinkendorf, B. Sheeran, M.J.V. Streeter, G.E. Tauscher, V. Wacker, S. Weichert, S. Wesch, P. Winkler, S. Wunderlich, J. Zemella
    DESY, Hamburg, Germany
  • A.R. Maier
    CFEL, Hamburg, Germany
  • A.R. Maier, A. Martinez de la Ossa, M. Meisel, J.-H. Röckemann
    University of Hamburg, Institut für Experimentalphysik, Hamburg, Germany
  • C.B. Schroeder
    LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
  • V. Wacker
    University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
  
  Funding: Work supported by Helmholtz ARD program and VH-VI-503
FLASHForward is the Future-ORiented Wakefield Accelerator Research and Development project at the DESY free-electron laser (FEL) facility FLASH. It aims to produce high-quality, GeV-energy electron beams over a plasma cell of a few centimeters. The plasma is created by means of a 25 TW Ti:Sapphire laser system. The plasma wakefield will be driven by high-current-density electron beams extracted from the FLASH accelerator. The project focuses on the advancement of plasma-based particle acceleration technology through the exploration of both external and internal witness-beam injection schemes. Multiple conventional and cutting-edge diagnostic tools, suitable for diagnosis of short electron beams, are under development. The design of the post-plasma beamline sections will be finalized based on the result of these aforementioned diagnostics. In this paper, the status of the project, as well as the progress towards achieving its overarching goal of demonstrating FEL gain via plasma wakefield acceleration, is discussed. 		 
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WEB04 Laser-to-RF Synchronization with Femtosecond Precision 407
 
  • T. Lamb, Ł. Butkowski, E.P. Felber, M. Felber, M. Fenner, S. Jabłoński, T. Kozak, J.M. Müller, P. Prędki, H. Schlarb, C. Sydlo, M. Titberidze, F. Zummack
    DESY, Hamburg, Germany
  
  Optical synchronization systems are already in regular operation in many FELs, or they will eventually be implemented in the future. In FLASH and the European XFEL, phase-stable optical reference signals are provided by a pulsed optical synchronization system in order to achieve low timing jitter FEL performance. The generation of phase-stable RF signals from a pulsed optical synchronization system is still a field of active research. The optical reference module (REFM-OPT), designed at DESY for operation in both FELs, employs a laser-to-RF phase detector, based on an integrated Mach-Zehnder interferometer. The phase drift of the 1.3 GHz RF reference signals with respect to the optical pulses is measured and actively corrected within the REFM-OPT at multiple locations in the accelerator. Therefore the REFM-OPT provides phase stable 1.3 GHz RF reference signals at these locations. The short-term and long-term performance in the accelerator tunnel of the European XFEL is presented and carefully reviewed.  
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