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TUP032 | Regenerative Amplification for a Hard X-Ray Free-Electron Laser | 118 |
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Funding: This work was supported by the Department of Energy, Laboratory Directed Research and Development program at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, under contract DE-AC02-76SF00515. An X-ray regenerative amplifier FEL (XRAFEL) utilizes an X-ray crystal cavity to provide optical feedback to the entrance of a high-gain undulator. An XRAFEL system leverages gain-guiding in the undulator to reduce the cavity alignment tolerances and targets the production of longitudinally coherent and high peak power and brightness X-ray pulses that could significantly enhance the performance of a standard single-pass SASE amplifier. The successful implementation of an X-ray cavity in the XRAFEL scheme requires the demonstration of X-ray optical components that can either satisfy large output coupling constraints or passively output a large fraction of the amplified coherent radiation. Here, we present new schemes to either actively Q-switch a diamond Bragg crystal through lattice constant manipulation or passively output couple a large fraction of the stored cavity radiation through controlled FEL microbunch rotation. A beamline design study, cavity stability analysis, and optimization will be presented illustrating the performance of potential XRAFEL configurations at LCLS-II/-HE using high-fidelity simulations. |
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DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-FEL2019-TUP032 | |
About • | paper received ※ 24 August 2019 paper accepted ※ 26 August 2019 issue date ※ 05 November 2019 | |
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TUP033 | Q-Switching of X-Ray Optical Cavities by Using Boron Doped Buried Layer Under a Surface of a Diamond Crystal | 122 |
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Improvement of the longitudinal coherence of X-ray Free Electron Lasers has been the subject of many recent investigations. The XFEL oscillator (XFELO) and Regenerative Amplifier Free-Electron Laser (RAFEL) schemes offer a pathway to fully coherent, high brightness X-ray radiation. The XFELO and RAFEL consist of a high repetition rate electron beam, an undulator and an X-ray crystal cavity to provide optical feedback. The X-ray cavity will be based on diamond crystals in order to manage a high thermal load. We are investigating a ’Q switching’ mechanism that involves the use of a ’Bragg switch’ to dump the X-ray pulse energy built-up inside an X-ray cavity. In particular, one can use an optical laser to manipulate the diamond crystal lattice constant to control the crystal reflectivity and transmission. It has been shown that a 9 MeV focused boron beam can create a buried layer, approximately 5 microns below surface, with a boron concentration up to 1021 atoms/cm3. Here, we present simulations showing that absorbing laser pulses by a buried layer under the crystal surface would allow creating a transient temperature profile which would be well suited for the ’Q switching’ scheme. | ||
DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-FEL2019-TUP033 | |
About • | paper received ※ 21 August 2019 paper accepted ※ 29 August 2019 issue date ※ 05 November 2019 | |
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TUP035 | Sensitivity of LCLS Self-Seeded Pedestal Emission to Laser Heater Strength | 126 |
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Measurements of the soft X-ray, self-seeding spectrum at the LCLS free-electron laser generally display a pedestal-like distribution around the central seeded wavelength that degrades the spectral purity. We have investigated the detailed experimental characteristics of this pedestal and found that it is comprised of two separate components: (1) normal SASE whose total strength is nominally insensitive to energy detuning and laser heater (LH) strength; (2) sideband-like emission whose strength positively correlates with that of the amplified seed and negatively with energy detuning and LH strength. We believe this latter, non-SASE component arises from comparatively long wavelength amplitude and phase modulations of the main seeded radiation line. Its shot-to-shot variability and LH sensitivity suggests an origin connected to growth of the longitudinal microbunching instability on the electron beam. Here, we present experimental results taken over a number of shifts that illustrate the above mentioned characteristics. | ||
DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-FEL2019-TUP035 | |
About • | paper received ※ 28 August 2019 paper accepted ※ 29 August 2019 issue date ※ 05 November 2019 | |
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TUP092 | XFEL Third Harmonic Statistics Measurement at LCLS | 269 |
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We investigate the statistical properties of the 6 keV third harmonic XFEL radiation at 2 keV fundamental photon energy at LCLS. We performed third harmonic self-seeding in the hard X-ray self-seeding chicane and characterized the attained non-linear third harmonic spectrum. We compare theoretical predictions with experimental results. | ||
DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-FEL2019-TUP092 | |
About • | paper received ※ 20 August 2019 paper accepted ※ 29 August 2019 issue date ※ 05 November 2019 | |
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TUD04 | Cavity-Based Free-Electron Laser Research and Development: A Joint Argonne National Laboratory and SLAC National Laboratory Collaboration | 282 |
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One solution for producing longitudinally coherent FEL pulses is to store and recirculate the output of an amplifier in an X-ray cavity so that the X-ray pulse can interact with following fresh electron bunches over many passes. The X-ray FEL oscillator (XFELO) and the X-ray regenerative amplifier FEL (XRAFEL) concepts use this technique and rely on the same fundamental ingredients to realize their full capability. Both schemes require a high repetition rate electron beam, an undulator to provide FEL gain, and an X-ray cavity to recirculate and monochromatize the radiation. The shared infrastructure, complementary performance characteristics, and potentially transformative FEL properties of the XFELO and XRAFEL have brought together a joint Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) and SLAC National Laboratory (SLAC) collaboration aimed at enabling these schemes at LCLS-II. We present plans to install a rectangular X-ray cavity in the LCLS-II undulator hall and perform experiments employing 2-bunch copper RF linac accelerated electron beams. This includes performing cavity ring-down measurements and 2-pass gain measurements for both the low-gain XFELO and the high-gain RAFEL schemes. | ||
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DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-FEL2019-TUD04 | |
About • | paper received ※ 25 August 2019 paper accepted ※ 29 August 2019 issue date ※ 05 November 2019 | |
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THP036 | Microbunch Rotation for Hard X-Ray Beam Multiplexing | 665 |
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Funding: This work was supported by the Department of Energy, Laboratory Directed Research and Development program at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, under contract DE-AC02-76SF00515. Electron bunches in an undulator develop periodic density modulations, or microbunches, which enable the exponential gain of X-ray power in a SASE FEL. Many FEL applications could benefit from the ability to preserve microbunching through a dipole kick. For example, X-ray beam multiplexing can be achieved if electron bunches are kicked into separate beamlines and allowed to lase in a final undulator. The microbunches developed in upstream undulators, if properly rotated, will lase off axis, producing radiation at an angle offset from the initial beam axis. Microbunch rotation with soft X-rays was previously published and demonstrated experimentally [1], multiplexing LCLS into three X-ray beams. Additional 2018 data demonstrated multiplexing of hard X-rays. Here we describe efforts to reproduce these hard X-ray experiments using an analytical model and Genesis simulations. Our goal is to apply microbunch rotation to out-coupling from a cavity-based XFEL, (RAFEL/XFELO) [2]. [1] J. P. MacArthur et al., Physical Review X 8, 041036 (2018). [2] G. Marcus et al. Poster TUD04 presented at FEL2019 (2019). |
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DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-FEL2019-THP036 | |
About • | paper received ※ 24 August 2019 paper accepted ※ 26 August 2019 issue date ※ 05 November 2019 | |
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THP071 | Progress in High Power High Brightness Double Bunch Self-Seeding at LCLS-II | 726 |
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Funding: Work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy Contract No. DE-AC02-76SF00515. We have previosuly shown that we can generate near TW, 15 fs duration, near transform limited X-ray pulses in the 4 to 8 keV photon energy range using the LCLS-II copper linac, two electron bunches, a 4-crystal monochromator/delay line and a fast transverse bunch kicker. The first bunch generates a strong seeding X-ray signal, and the second bunch, initially propagating off-axis, interacts with the seed in a tapered amplifier undulator, where it propagates on axis. In this paper, we investigate the design of the 4-crystal monochromator, acting also as an X-ray delay system, and of the fast kicker, in preparation of the implementation of the system in LCLS-II. |
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DOI • | reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-FEL2019-THP071 | |
About • | paper received ※ 20 August 2019 paper accepted ※ 26 August 2019 issue date ※ 05 November 2019 | |
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