Author: van der Slot, P.J.M.
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TUP050 Comparison Between, and Validation Against an Experiment of, a Slowly-varying Envelope Approximation Code and a Particle-in-Cell Simulation Code for Free-Electron Lasers 153
 
  • P. Traczykowski, L.T. Campbell, J. Henderson, B.W.J. MᶜNeil
    USTRAT/SUPA, Glasgow, United Kingdom
  • L.T. Campbell, J. Henderson, P. Traczykowski
    STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
  • H. Freund
    University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA
  • B.W.J. MᶜNeil, P. Traczykowski
    Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
  • P.J.M. van der Slot
    Mesa+, Enschede, The Netherlands
 
  Free-electron laser simulation codes employ either the Slowly-Varying Envelope Approximation (SVEA) or a Particle-in-Cell (PiC) formulation. Maxwell’s equations are averaged over the fast time scale in the SVEA so that there is no need to resolve the wave period. In contrast, the fast oscillation is retained in PiC codes. As a result, the SVEA codes are much less computationally intensive and are used more frequently than PiC codes. While the orbit dynamics in PiC codes and some SVEA Codes (MEDUSA and MINERVA) use the full unaveraged Lorentz force equations, some SVEA codes use the Kroll-Morton-Rosenbluth (KMR) approximation (GENESIS, GINGER, FAST, and TDA3D). Steady-state simulation comparisons [1] have appeared in the literature between different codes using the averaged and unaveraged particle dynamics. Recently, a comparison between three KMR SVEA codes (GENESIS, GINGER, and FAST) and the PUFFIN PiC code in the time-dependent regime has been reported [2]. In this paper, we present a comparison between the unaveraged PiC code PUFFIN, the unaveraged SVEA code MINERVA for the time-dependent simulation of SASE free-electron lasers with the experimental measurements from SPARC SASE FEL at ENEA Frascati.
[1] S.G. Biedron et al., NIMA 445, 110 (2000).
[2] B. Garcia et al., paper presented at the 38th International Free Electron Laser Conference, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 20 - 25 August 2017.
 
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DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-FEL2019-TUP050  
About • paper received ※ 02 August 2019       paper accepted ※ 28 August 2019       issue date ※ 05 November 2019  
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