FEL2019 - List of Authors (Jacobson, B.T.)

Paper	Title	Page
WEP103	A Plasma Attenuator for Soft X-Rays in LCLS-II	553
	A.S. Fisher, A.L. Benwell, Y. Feng, B.T. Jacobson SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
	Attenuation of X-ray FEL beams is often required to avoid damaging optics and detectors during alignment, and to study fluence-dependent effects. Soft X-rays are commonly attenuated by photoabsorption in a gas such as argon. However, absorbing a mJ pulse along a meter creates a pressure wave that drives gas away from the X-ray propagation axis, until equilibrium recovers in ~1 ms. This timescale matched the 120-Hz pulse spacing of LCLS, but at the high repetition rate (up to 1 MHz) and power (up to 200 W) of LCLS-II, the attenuation of subsequent pulses is reduced. Simulations demonstrate hysteresis and erratic attenuation from gas-density depletion. Instead, we propose to replace the gas column with an argon plasma in a TM010 RF cavity. The density profile then is largely set by the RF mode. X-ray absorption becomes a perturbation compared to the energy in the plasma. An LCLS-II solid-state RF amplifier, generating up to 4 kW at 1.3 GHz, can provide the drive, and the FPGA-based low-level RF controller can be programmed to track tuning with plasma density. Several diagnostics are planned to monitor plasma properties over a fill-pressure range of 10 to 1000 Pa.
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WEP104	A High-Power, High-Repetition Rate THz Source for LCLS-II Pump-Probe Experiments	556
	Z. Zhang, A.S. Fisher, M.C. Hoffmann, Z. Huang, B.T. Jacobson, P.S. Kirchmann, W.S. Lee, A. Lindenberg, E.A. Nanni, R.W. Schoenlein SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA S. Sasaki, J.Z. Xu ANL, Lemont, Illinois, USA
	Experiments using a THz pump and an x-ray probe at an x-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) facility like LCLS-II require frequency-tunable (3 to 20 THz), narrow bandwidth ( ∼ 10\%), carrier-envelope-phase-stable THz pulses that produce high fields (>1MV/cm) at the repetition rate of the x rays and well synchronized with them. In this paper, we study a two-bunch scheme to generate THz radiation at LCLS-II: the first bunch produces THz radiation in a permanent-magnet or electromagnet wiggler immediately following the LCLS-II undulator that produces X-rays from the second bunch. The initial time delay between the two bunches is optimized to compensate for the path difference in transport. We describe the two-bunch beam dynamics, the THz wiggler and radiation, as well as the transport system bringing the THz pulses from the wiggler to the experimental hall.
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About •	paper received ※ 23 August 2019 paper accepted ※ 17 September 2019 issue date ※ 05 November 2019
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A Plasma Attenuator for Soft X-Rays in LCLS-II

553

A.S. Fisher, A.L. Benwell, Y. Feng, B.T. Jacobson
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA

Attenuation of X-ray FEL beams is often required to avoid damaging optics and detectors during alignment, and to study fluence-dependent effects. Soft X-rays are commonly attenuated by photoabsorption in a gas such as argon. However, absorbing a mJ pulse along a meter creates a pressure wave that drives gas away from the X-ray propagation axis, until equilibrium recovers in ~1 ms. This timescale matched the 120-Hz pulse spacing of LCLS, but at the high repetition rate (up to 1 MHz) and power (up to 200 W) of LCLS-II, the attenuation of subsequent pulses is reduced. Simulations demonstrate hysteresis and erratic attenuation from gas-density depletion. Instead, we propose to replace the gas column with an argon plasma in a TM010 RF cavity. The density profile then is largely set by the RF mode. X-ray absorption becomes a perturbation compared to the energy in the plasma. An LCLS-II solid-state RF amplifier, generating up to 4 kW at 1.3 GHz, can provide the drive, and the FPGA-based low-level RF controller can be programmed to track tuning with plasma density. Several diagnostics are planned to monitor plasma properties over a fill-pressure range of 10 to 1000 Pa.

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reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-FEL2019-WEP103

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paper received ※ 16 August 2019 paper accepted ※ 28 August 2019 issue date ※ 05 November 2019

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WEP104

A High-Power, High-Repetition Rate THz Source for LCLS-II Pump-Probe Experiments

556

Z. Zhang, A.S. Fisher, M.C. Hoffmann, Z. Huang, B.T. Jacobson, P.S. Kirchmann, W.S. Lee, A. Lindenberg, E.A. Nanni, R.W. Schoenlein
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
S. Sasaki, J.Z. Xu
ANL, Lemont, Illinois, USA

Experiments using a THz pump and an x-ray probe at an x-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) facility like LCLS-II require frequency-tunable (3 to 20 THz), narrow bandwidth ( ∼ 10\%), carrier-envelope-phase-stable THz pulses that produce high fields (>1MV/cm) at the repetition rate of the x rays and well synchronized with them. In this paper, we study a two-bunch scheme to generate THz radiation at LCLS-II: the first bunch produces THz radiation in a permanent-magnet or electromagnet wiggler immediately following the LCLS-II undulator that produces X-rays from the second bunch. The initial time delay between the two bunches is optimized to compensate for the path difference in transport. We describe the two-bunch beam dynamics, the THz wiggler and radiation, as well as the transport system bringing the THz pulses from the wiggler to the experimental hall.

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reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-FEL2019-WEP104

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paper received ※ 23 August 2019 paper accepted ※ 17 September 2019 issue date ※ 05 November 2019

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