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MOA02 | First Lasing of a Free Electron Laser in the Soft X-Ray Spectral Range with Echo Enabled Harmonic Generation | 7 |
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We report on the successful operation of a Free Electron Laser (FEL) in the Echo Enabled Harmonic Generation (EEHG) scheme at the FERMI facility at Sincrotrone Trieste. The experiment required a modification of the FEL-2 undulator line which, in normal operation, uses two stages of high-gain harmonic generation separated by a delay line. In addition to a new seed laser, the dispersion in the delay-line was increased, the second stage modulator changed and a new manipulator installed in the delay-line chicane hosting additional diagnostic components. With this modified setup we have demonstrated the first evidence of strong exponential gain in a free electron laser operated in EEHG mode at wavelengths as short as 5 nm. | ||
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DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-FEL2019-MOA02 | |
About • | paper received ※ 21 August 2019 paper accepted ※ 28 August 2019 issue date ※ 05 November 2019 | |
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THP048 | Progress Towards Laser Plasma Electron Based Free Electron Laser on COXINEL | 684 |
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Laser plasma acceleration (LPA) with up to several GeV beam in very short distance appears very promising. The Free Electron Laser (FEL), though very challenging, can be viewed as a qualifying application of these new emerging LPAs. The energy spread and divergence, larger than from conventional accelerators used for FEL, have to be manipulated to fulfil the FEL requirements. On the test experiment COXINEL (ERC340015), the beam is controlled in a manipulation [1,2] line, using permanent magnet quadrupoles of variable strength [3] for emittance handing and a decompression chicane equipped with a slit for the energy selection, enabling FEL amplification for baseline reference parameters [2]. The electron position and dispersion are independently adjusted [4]. The measured spontaneous emission radiated by a 2 m long 18 mm period cryo-ready undulator exhibits the typical undulator spatio-spectral pattern, in agreement with the modelling of the electron beam travelling along the line and of the afferent photon generation. The wavelength is easily tuned with undulator gap variation. A wavelength stability of 2.6% is achieved. The undulator linewidth can be controlled.
[1] A. Loulergue et al., New J. Phys. 17 023028 (2015) [2] M. E. Couprie et al., PPCF 58, 3 (2016) [3] F. Marteau et al., APL 111, 253503 (2017) [4] T. André et al., Nature Comm. 1334 (2018) |
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DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-FEL2019-THP048 | |
About • | paper received ※ 13 August 2019 paper accepted ※ 16 September 2019 issue date ※ 05 November 2019 | |
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