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TY - CONF AU - Shurvinton, C.L. AU - Dunning, D.J. AU - Thompson, N. ED - Schaa, Volker RW ED - Arduini, Gianluigi ED - Pranke, Juliana ED - Seidel, Mike ED - Lindroos, Mats TI - Design Study for the Generation of Few-Cycle FEL Pulses Using Mode-Locked Afterburner Scheme at Clara J2 - Proc. of IPAC2017, Copenhagen, Denmark, 14â19 May, 2017 C1 - Copenhagen, Denmark T2 - International Particle Accelerator Conference T3 - 8 LA - english AB - Ultrashort pulse operation in FELs is a highly desirable capability for imaging matter on ultrafast timescales. This paper presents a design study for a proof-Âof-Âprinciple demonstration of the mode-locked afterburner (ML-AB) scheme on the FEL test facility CLARA. A start-to-end simulation has been constructed using the time-Âdependent three-Âdimensional FEL code GENESIS 1.3 to evaluate the performance of the scheme. The ability to produce pulses of several femtoseconds in duration with peak powers of the order of 100 MW at 100 nm wavelength is predicted. Such pulses have duration of 2 fs (6 optical cycles), a factor of ~5 shorter than the FEL cooperation length. Potential routes for further optimisation and alternative operating modes are explored. PB - JACoW CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 2783 EP - 2786 DA - 2017/05 PY - 2017 SN - 978-3-95450-182-3 DO - 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2017-WEPAB089 UR - http://jacow.org/ipac2017/papers/wepab089.pdf ER -