Author: Rossbach, J.    [Roßbach, J.]
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TUP009 Integration of an XFELO at the European XFEL Facility 62
 
  • P. Rauer, I. Bahns, W. Hillert, J. Roßbach
    University of Hamburg, Institut für Experimentalphysik, Hamburg, Germany
  • W. Decking
    DESY, Hamburg, Germany
  • H. Sinn
    EuXFEL, Schenefeld, Germany
 
  Funding: Work supported by BMBF (FKZ 05K16GU4)
An X-ray free-electron laser oscillator (XFELO) is a fourth generation X-ray source promising radiation with full three dimensional coherence, nearly constant pulse to pulse stability and more than an order of magnitude higher peak brilliance compared to SASE FELs. Proposed by Kim et al. in 2008 [1] an XFELO follows the concept of circulating the light in an optical cavity - as known from FEL oscillators in longer wavelength regimes - but uses Bragg reflecting crystals instead of classical mirrors. With the new European X-ray Free-Electron Laser (XFEL) facility recently gone into operation, the realization of an XFELO with radiation in the Angstrom regime seems feasible. Though, the high thermal load of the radiation on the cavity crystals, the high sensibility of the Bragg-reflection on reflection angle and crystal temperature as well as the very demanding tolerances of the at least 60 m long optical resonator path pose challenges which need to be considered. In this work these problems shall be summarized and results regarding the possible integration of an XFELO at the European XFEL facility will be presented.
[1] K.-J. Kim, Y. Shvyd’ko and S. Reiche, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100 (2008), 244802.
 
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-FEL2019-TUP009  
About • paper received ※ 20 August 2019       paper accepted ※ 29 August 2019       issue date ※ 05 November 2019  
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TUP076 Seeding R&D at sFLASH 230
 
  • C. Lechner, S. Ackermann, R.W. Aßmann, B. Faatz, V. Grattoni, I. Hartl, S.D. Hartwell, R. Ivanov, T. Laarmann, T. Lang, M.M. Mohammad Kazemi, G. Paraskaki, A. Przystawik, J. Zheng
    DESY, Hamburg, Germany
  • A. Azima, H. Biss, M. Drescher, W. Hillert, V. Miltchev, J. Roßbach
    University of Hamburg, Institut für Experimentalphysik, Hamburg, Germany
  • S. Khan
    DELTA, Dortmund, Germany
 
  Funding: Work supported by Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany under contract No. 05K13GU4, 05K13PE3, and 05K16PEA.
Free-electron lasers (FELs) based on the self-amplified spontaneous emission (SASE) principle generate photon pulses with typically poor longitudinal coherence. FEL seeding techniques greatly improve longitudinal coherence by initiating FEL amplification in a controlled way using coherent light pulses. The sFLASH experiment installed at the FEL user facility FLASH at DESY in Hamburg is dedicated to the study of external seeding techniques. In this paper, the layout of the sFLASH seeding experiment is presented and an overview of recent developments is given.
 
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About • paper received ※ 30 September 2019       paper accepted ※ 17 October 2019       issue date ※ 05 November 2019  
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THP041 Interaction of Powerful Electro-Magnetic Fields With Bragg Reflectors 673
 
  • I. Bahns, W. Hillert, P. Rauer, J. Roßbach
    University of Hamburg, Institut für Experimentalphysik, Hamburg, Germany
  • H. Sinn
    EuXFEL, Schenefeld, Germany
 
  Funding: supported by BMBF FKZ 05K16GU4
The interaction of an X-ray free electron laser (XFEL) with a Bragg Reflector can cause a change of the lattice constant, which has a direct influence on the stability of the reflection conditions [1] and can also excite modes of vibration [2]. The dynamical thermoelastic effects of the photon-matter-interaction are simulated with a finite-element-method (FEM) using the assumptions of continuums mechanics. To compare the simulation results with measured signals, a Michelson interferometer with ultrafast photodiodes (risetime <175ps, bandwith >2GHz) has been built up. To test the experimental setup in an in-house environment a pulsed UV laser is used to introduce a temporal displacement field in a silicon crystal created by about 0.26µJ of absorbed energy. The measured signal is in agreement with the FEM simulation and has shown that if averaging over thousands of pulses is applied a resolution <0.5pm is feasible. This makes this experimental setup useful to investigate the X-ray-matter-interaction of Bragg reflectors at modern X-ray facilities.
[1] S. Stoupin et al., Physical Review B 86.5 (2012): 054301.
[2] B. Yang, S. Wang and J. Wu, J. Synchrotron Rad. (2018) 25, 166-176.
 
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About • paper received ※ 23 August 2019       paper accepted ※ 31 October 2019       issue date ※ 05 November 2019  
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